Office of the Historian

761.91/106

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Persia (Kornfeld)

Washington, June 30, 1924.
No. 316

Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 441 of April 1, 1924, with which you submit a translation of a note from the Persian Foreign Office in the matter of the taxation of foreign subjects in Persia.

In the first paragraph of the enclosure with the despatch the following statement is made:

“Only in the commercial agreement signed between Persia and Great Britain in the year 1903 it is stated that no other duties except tolls shall be collected on goods imported into Persia after customs duties are collected on such goods. This provision of the agreement has been and will be complied with.”

The Department desires to be informed whether this Government, under the most-favored-nation provisions of the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce (1856) with Persia,43 is receiving the benefits of the treatment accorded to Great Britain under the Treaty of 1903.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Joseph C. Grew
  1. Malloy, Treaties, 1910–1923, vol. ii, p. 1371.↩