File No. 657.119/500d
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
7676. For Sheldon [from War Trade Board]:
No. 455. Repeat the following by cable to Christiania and by letter to Paris.
Following is abbreviated text of War Trade Board ruling No. 103 which will be issued May 10:
The War Trade Board announces that, in consequence of the conclusion of a general commercial agreement with Norway, exports to that country of commodities embraced in the schedules attached to that agreement are about to be resumed. A copy of the schedules, enumerating the commodities and the quantities of each which Norway is entitled to import from this country or from other sources, is appended to this announcement. Exports from the United States will be licensed subject to the general policy of conservation and to the general rules and regulations of the War Trade Board.
Various commodities included in the schedules of exports to Norway have hitherto been consigned to one or another of the Norwegian import associations, which are now in process of reorganization. The War Trade Board will not consider applications for licenses to export any of these commodities until the appropriate import association shall have issued a new certificate of guarantee covering the consignment specified in the application. Guarantees issued by such associations prior to May 10, 1918, will not be accepted. Prospective importers of such articles should obtain the appropriate certificate of guarantee, dated subsequent to May 10, 1918, from the proper association and forward the serial number thereof and the name of the association issuing the same to the prospective exporter in the United States. Exporters should furnish the serial number of the certificate and the name of the Norwegian import association. Export licenses will be valid only for shipments to be made on vessels flying the Norwegian flag.
[Page 1186]The schedules of commodities with the quantities of each which Norway is entitled to import, as laid down in the agreement, are as follows, the amounts being for a year’s consumption and calculated in metric tons unless otherwise specified. Schedules follow.
Forms follow.