611b.9417/253
The Japanese Embassy to the Department of State10
Memorandum
The Japanese Embassy has transmitted to the Department for Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Government the memorandum of the State Department, dated July 2, 1937, in which it is proposed by the Government of the United States that the existing arrangement as set out in the Conversation of October 11, 1935 relating to the importation of Japanese cotton piece goods into the Philippine Islands which is to expire on July 31, 1937, will remain in force either for a period of six months or one year.
The Japanese Embassy is now instructed to inform the Government of the United States that the Association of Japanese Exporters of Cotton Piece Goods into the Philippine Islands agrees to the continuation of the present arrangement for a period of one year from August 1, 1937 to July 31, 1938, and further that, as to the importation of Japanese cotton piece goods into the Philippine Islands via intermediate ports, the Association of Japanese Exporters of Cotton Piece Goods into the Philippine Islands, which has been taking measures to restrict the exportation of the said goods to the Philippine Islands, will as far as possible continue its voluntary adjustments by exerting every effort to make the restrictions at least as effective as they were during the period November, 1936, through May, 1937.
- Handed by the Counselor of the Japanese Embassy to Mr. Ballantine on August 3 in substitution for a previous version handed to Mr. Ballantine on July 27 (not printed).↩