560.M3/36: Telegram
The Chief of the American Delegation (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 4—3:06 a.m.]
4. Supplementing my 3, July 3, 9 p.m. Belgium voices its exception for raw bones in view of signature yesterday of agreement on hides and bones, text of which is not yet available.
Consideration of the Bulgarian exceptions postponed.
Estonian exception for butter and eggs rejected; that on platinum, et cetera, admitted for discussion.
United States exception on helium gas admitted for discussion.
[Page 389]Norway withdrew exception for cereals. Its exception on shares of shipping companies was thrown out; its exception for vessels and parts of vessels admitted for discussion.
Chile, which signed on June 14th, submitted reservations which Conference voted not to debar because of delayed date of submission, reading as follows:
“Reservations: On signing the present convention the undersigned declares on behalf of his Government:
- (a)
- That he is firmly convinced numbers 1 and 3 of Article 4 cannot be [invoked by the] other high contracting parties in order to prohibit or restrict the import into their territory of Chilean nitrate of soda, which is employed for agricultural purposes.
- (b)
- That, in the opinion of the Chilean Government, the convention affects neither the tariff system nor the treaty-making methods of the participating countries, nor the measures taken to ensure the allotment [application] thereof, including any steps taken to counteract the effects of dumping.
[My Government also takes this opportunity of drawing the attention of the other High Contracting Parties to the prohibitions or restrictions which it desires to maintain, and which I should be obliged if you would likewise submit to the said Conference for consideration:
Upon the export of:]33
- (1)
- Scrap iron and scrap zinc, in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 6 of the convention.
- (2)
- Guano, the export of which is prohibited as the reserves will probably be exhausted in the near future. In my government’s opinion, this prohibition could also be based on paragraph 8 of article 4 of the convention.
- (3)
- Mares, in accordance with paragraph 1 of article 6, as my Government has been obliged for the time being to prohibit the export of these animals to meet the requirements of national defense.”
Conference refused to discuss reservation (a), threw out exception for guano and postponed consideration of exceptions on scrap iron and on mares.
Poland withdrew reservations on dye stuffs and crude oils but indicated at the same time that it retained its declaration relative to ratification contained in its letter of January 31st (C. I. A. P. 23).
- Bracketed portion, omitted in telegram as received by the Department, supplied from Proceedings of the Conference, p. 119.↩