623.4131/45a
The Secretary of State to
the Ambassador in Peru (
Dearing
)
No. 946
Washington
, November 11, 1936.
Sir: Reference is made to your telegram No. 57,
of October 26 last, and previous correspondence in regard to the
recently signed commercial agreement between Peru and Great Britain.
The Department encloses a draft note concerning this subject and requests
that you communicate its contents to the Peruvian Government.
If the information is now available, the Department would like to know
whether the secret supplementary agreements discussed during the
negotiations for the commercial agreement were finally executed and
whether they are now in force.
Very truly yours,
For the Secretary of State:
Francis
B. Sayre
[Enclosure]
Draft of a Note To Be Presented to the Peruvian
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Excellency: I have the honor to state to
Your Excellency upon instruction that my Government, having been
informed of the conclusion of a commercial agreement between Peru
and Great Britain and of the coming into force of Articles IV and V
in accordance with the first protocol annexed to the agreement,
assumes that imports into Peru of goods from the United States will
be granted the benefits accorded those of British merchandise, as
otherwise it would have no course other than to regard the operation
of the agreement as discriminatory. In this connection, I am
directed again to invite the attention of Your Excellency’s
Government to the practice, established by law, of my Government in
generalizing for the benefit of other countries concessions granted
in trade agreements, with the single exception of the agreement made
with Cuba, provided that discrimination is not made against the
commerce of the United States.
