832.61333/836: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery)
2851. Your 3536, July 22, 7 p.m. Department concurs with suggestion regarding possible coffee shipments to United States for eventual use in relief areas subject to the conditions stated in your telegram. It would be advantageous if any such shipments could be made under the quotas established by Article I of the Inter-American Coffee agreement91 for the United States market, rather than Article II, to provide flexibility in the event that at some later date an unforeseen shortage of coffee should arise in the United States. It should be made clear to the Brazilian authorities, however, that this should be considered merely a wise precaution rather than any intention to consume such coffee in the United States, it being understood that if any of the coffee shipped prior to September 30, 1943 should be entered for consumption in the United States market the CCC. would in accordance with paragraph 4 of the Purchase Agreement with Brazil replace it by the purchase of an equivalent quantity of coffee in Brazil from current production. C.C.C. concurs.
- Signed at Washington, November 28, 1940. For text, see Treaty Series No. 970, or 55 Stat. (pt. 2) 1143: for correspondence, see Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. v, pp. 380 ff.↩