611.60c31/89
The Minister in Poland (Stetson) to
the Secretary of State
Warsaw, November 21, 1928.
[Received
December 11.]
No. 2030
Sir: Adverting to the Legation’s previous
correspondence with the Department relative to the question of indirect
trade between the United States and Poland, I now have the honor to
transmit herewith copy of a memorandum which was delivered by Mr. Biega,
of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Werlich, of this
Legation, under date of October 31 [30],
1928.
The memorandum in question includes a decision of the Economic Council of
Ministers relative to the policy to be adopted by the Polish Government
in the negotiations for a commercial treaty with the United States.
I have been advised by Count Potocki, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
that the decision of the Economic Council of Ministers has already been
communicated to Mr. Ciechanowski, the Polish Minister in Washington, for
his information and for his guidance in any negotiations that may take
place in Washington between representatives of the Polish and the
American Governments, with a view to concluding a commercial treaty.
I have [etc.]
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[Enclosure—Memorandum]
The Polish Ministry for
Foreign Affairs to the American
Legation
By their decision of 28th October the Council of Ministers have
agreed to admit in the now being negotiated commercial treaty
between Poland and the U. S. A. the principle of equal treatment of
all merchandise without discrimination whether it is shipped
directly or indirectly to the Polish custom frontier on the
condition however, that:
- a)
- The Polish Government will receive the consent of the
Government of the U. S. A. that the above principle will
come into application simultaneously with the treaty itself
and that the Government of the U. S. A. will not press on
the Polish Government the application of the same until the
coming into force of the said treaty. Should the coming into
force of the said treaty for some unforeseen reasons be
unduly delayed it is understood that the above obligation on
the part of the U. S. A. Government will be binding for a
period of six months only.
- b)
- The article in question will be worded in such a way (1)
as to indicate beyond any doubt that this privilege of
indirect importation is applicable only to the merchandise
which on its way to Poland must at least partly be
transported across the sea, (2) as to make impossible the
substitution of the merchandise of other countries for
American merchandise in the stores of the transit
countries.
Warsaw, 30 October,
1928.
