811.20 (D) Regulations/3912a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to Collectors of Customs
There have been revoked today all valid licenses authorizing the exportation of petroleum products to countries other than the following: countries of the Western Hemisphere, the British Empire, Egypt, Netherlands Indies, Unoccupied China, and the Belgian Congo. These revocations are effective at midnight today, August 1, 1941. Accordingly, after the hour mentioned no further shipments of petroleum products should be permitted to clear for exportation to countries other than those referred to above under licenses which have been issued prior to this date. Any outstanding licenses which have been or may be presented to you for exportations affected by the foregoing should be returned to the Department of State immediately.20
General License No. GEH issued by the Secretary of State on June 20, 1941 authorizing the exportation from those ports located on any coast of the United States except the Atlantic Coast of certain petroleum products has been revoked as of midnight today, August 1, in respect to shipments to countries other than those referred to above.
- In telegram dated August 11 to the Collector of Customs at Los Angeles, the Secretary of State reported issuance of licenses for certain petroleum products to Japan and authorized their export, “subject, of course, to the receipt of appropriate licenses issued by the Treasury Department under Executive Order 8389 as amended.”↩