740.00112 Navicert/276
Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs (Murray)
The sugar which entered French Morocco from the French West Indies either entered without British knowledge or it may have been tacitly permitted as a part of a deal in exchange for French permission for phosphates to pass from French Morocco to Great Britain.
We know that the British expressed themselves to us as desiring that we not ship sugar or tea to Morocco when there was under consideration a clearing agreement between Britain and French Morocco. The reason given was that the British wished to reserve these products for their own trade with French Morocco.
It is believed, therefore, that we should keep an attentive eye on any possible efforts to misuse the navicert system to curb arbitrarily American exports to Morocco.