832.24/6–2846
Agreement Between the United States of America and the United States of Brazil on the Disposition of Lend-Lease Supplies in Inventory or Procurement in the United States of America
The United States of America and the United States of Brazil in order to provide for the orderly disposition in their mutual interests of the undelivered articles which were in inventory or procurement in the United States of America, prior to September 2, 1945, for the purpose of providing mutual defense aid to the United States of Brazil under the Act of March 11, 1941, as amended,43 agree as follows:
Article I
All articles and services undertaken to be provided by the United States of America under this Agreement shall be made available under [Page 448] the authority and subject to the terms and conditions of the Act of March 11, 1941, as amended, and any acts supplementary thereto.
Article II
Within such periods as may be authorized by law, the United States of America agrees to transfer to the United States of Brazil and the United States of Brazil agrees to accept those articles which are or will be available to the United States of America for transfer to the United States of Brazil out of articles that were in inventory or procurement in the United States of America prior to September 2, 1945, for the purpose of providing defense aid under the Act of March 11, 1941, to the United States of Brazil, but were not transferred prior to the date of the signature of this Agreement.
Article III
The United States of Brazil agrees to pay the United States of America for the articles transferred under Article II hereof at a time and in an amount determined as provided in Article III of the Agreement between the United States of America and the United States of Brazil on the subject of defense aid dated March 3, 1942.45 It is understood that accessorial charges, inland and ocean freight and other expenses connected with the transportation to the United States of Brazil of the articles transferred will be paid by the United States of Brazil.
Article IV
Without limitation upon the provisions of Article II hereof, it is agreed that the approximate value and the general categories of the articles to be transferred hereunder are as follows:
| Industrial equipment | $1,014,000 |
| Air Forces equipment | 137,000 |
| Ordnance equipment | 898,000 |
Article V
It is agreed that the articles transferred to the United States of Brazil under this Agreement shall not be retransferred to the Government of any third country without the consent of the President of the United States of America.
Article VI
It is agreed that transfers under this Agreement and articles so transferred are further subject to the provisions of Article VII of the Agreement between the United States of America and the United States of Brazil dated March 3, 1942.
[Page 449]Article VII
The provisions of this Agreement shall not apply to articles covered by requisitions calling for full cash payment by the United States of Brazil or to articles requisitioned under Brazilian Project Number 4 for the airplane engine factory at Xerem.
Article VIII
This Agreement does not constitute a final settlement of the terms and conditions upon which the United States of Brazil has received aid under the Act of March 11, 1941, except for the articles made available under the provisions hereof.
Article IX
It is understood that the articles comprising the category “Ordnance equipment” referred to in Article IV hereof are incomplete and that their completion is not contemplated under the terms of Article II hereof; nevertheless the United States of America agrees to undertake the completion of the said articles at the option and expense of the United States of Brazil.
Article X
This Agreement shall take effect as from this day’s date.
Done in duplicate, at Washington, this 28th day of June, 1946.
Deputy Foreign Liquidation Commissioner Department of State
For the United States of Brazil
Chief of the Brazilian Military Commission
Chief of the Brazilian Naval Commission
Chief of the Brazilian Aeronautical Commission
- 55 Stat. 31, 745.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. v, p. 815.↩