Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1931, Volume I

511.4A6/381: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Caldwell)

Washington, July 7, 1931—4 p.m.

18. Your despatch No. 3, June 17.³ Proposed article 16 might impose on the United States an obligation inconsistent with its obligations under articles 1 and 2 of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation concluded on October 1, 1929 between the United States and Turkey⁴ (and substantially similar provisions in treaties concluded with other countries) to extend unconditional most favored nation treatment to articles the growth, produce or manufacture of those countries. Accordingly the proposed article could not be accepted by the United States without appropriate amendment or reservation.

Your telegram 39, July 6, 10 a.m.³ Unless convention contains a provision explicitly authorizing the adoption by any signatory of measures of internal control and control of import and of export stricter than the convention provisions the delegation should make a reservation on this point. Proposed statement by President of the Conference even though embodied in the minutes is considered insufficient.

Your telegrams 34 and 36, instructions will follow.

Castle

3. Not printed.
4. Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. iii, p. 838.
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