611.3731/817 supp.: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Cuba (Caffery)
124. Refer to Department’s telegram No. 123, August 7, 2 p.m. I believe it highly desirable and in conformity with the policy of this Government to secure the agreement of the Cuban authorities to the following article, which should become Article V. This is the last of the Department’s amendments to the general provisions.
“No quantitative restriction shall be imposed by the Republic of Cuba on any article the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America enumerated and described in Schedule I annexed to this agreement, or by the United States of America on any article the growth, produce or manufacture of the Republic of Cuba enumerated and described in Schedule II other than dutiable sugar or tobacco or dutiable products thereof: Provided, that the foregoing provision shall not apply to prohibitions or restrictions relating to public security; imposed on moral or humanitarian grounds; designed to protect human, animal or plant life; relating to prison-made goods or goods the product of forced labor; relating to the enforcement of police or revenue laws; or designed to extend to imported products a regime analogous to that affecting like or competing domestic products, such as restrictions imposed on imported products the production of which is restricted within the importing country.”