611.2231/128: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Ecuador ( Gonzalez )

11. Your telegram No. 14, March 17, 6 p.m. The list in question will be published soon as part of the formal public announcement of opening of negotiations.

You may assure the Foreign Minister39 that the omission of mangrove bark, rubber, and hides from the list of products which it is intended to publish in the near future as the products in respect of which the United States will consider the granting of concessions to Ecuador in no way implies that there is any intention on the part of the United States Government to alter the tariff status of these three products. These products have been omitted solely because Ecuador is a minor source of supply of the imports of such products into the United States. If at some later date any of these products now on the free list should be bound thereon under trade agreements with countries which are the principal sources of supply, Ecuador would, under the most-favored-nation clause, enjoy the benefit of such assurances of continued free entry.

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  1. Carlos Manuel Larrea.