711.542/14: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson)
106. Referring to your despatch No. 88, September 12, 1927.2 During the course of negotiating treaties of friendship, commerce and consular rights with other nations, the Department has found it wise to make certain alterations in the drafts which were used as a basis for the negotiations. The following changes are proposed for the draft which you submitted November 2, 1926, to the Swiss Foreign Office:3
(1) Instead of articles XI and XII concerning commercial travelers, substitute the following article:
“Commercial travelers representing manufacturers, merchants and traders domiciled in the territories of either High Contracting Party shall on their entry into and sojourn in the territories of the other Party and on their departure therefrom be accorded the most-favored-nation treatment in respect of customs and other privileges and of all charges and taxes of whatever denomination applicable to them or to their samples.
“If either High Contracting Party require the presentation of an authentic document establishing the identity and authority of a commercial traveler, a signed statement by the concern or concerns represented, certified by a consular officer of the country of destination shall be accepted as satisfactory.”
Treatment accorded commercial travelers of the most favored nation must be acceptable to the two contracting parties in order that this proposed article shall be accepted.
(2) At the end of article IX, add the following sentence:
“If such consent be given on the condition of reciprocity the condition shall be deemed to relate to the provisions of the laws, National, [Page 895] State or Provincial under which the foreign corporation or association desiring to exercise such rights is organized.”
(3) In line eleven of article XIII, substitute for “coming from or going through” the following, “coming from, going to or passing through”.
(4) In article VII, particularly as to licenses and rations or quotas, a number of changes will be suggested and sent you with explanations of the suggested changes above by an early pouch.
- Not printed.↩
- Draft not printed; but see telegrams No. 83, July 23, 1926, to the Chargé in Switzerland, and No. 119, Nov. 4, 1926, from the Minister in Switzerland, Foreign Relations, 1926, vol. ii, p. 968.↩