103.9169/3948: Telegram

The Ambassador in Uruguay ( Dawson ) to the Secretary of State

521. The proposal to shrink the import recommendation procedure to the positive list as transmitted in circular airgram May 2565 to become effective July 1 is acceptable to Country Agency. However, Country Agency accepts relaxation only as it refers to joint controls and in so far as proposal does not encroach upon local procedure. The problems confronting the Embassy in obtaining relaxations in local import controls parallel to roll backs in export controls in the United States are presented comprehensively in dispatch number 3992, February 29, A–117, March 166 and A–279, May 27.

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It is recommended that every effort be made to provide that news service announcements of roll back do not precede the local announcement and that the Embassy be advised as early as possible as to when this local announcement may be released. In the instance of previous roll backs news despatches generally garbled and incomplete have been published prior to official announcement by Country Agency. This has made Embassy’s position difficult with that organization.

For local effort, it should be desirable if official announcement by FEA could give some approximation of the relation between the relaxation in control and the availability for export of the commodities released from Decentralization Procedure.

Dawson
  1. Not printed; for content, see footnote 64, p. 744.
  2. Airgram A–117 not printed.