Office of the Historian

811.516 Export-Import Bank/5–2148

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Ecuador

confidential
No. 67
Washington, May 21, 1948.

The Secretary of State transmits herewith for the information of the Officer in Chargé an agreement, signed May 12, 1948, between the Republic of Ecuador and the Export-Import Bank of Washington establishing a credit of $2,720,000 to finance the cost of equipment, materials and services required in connection with the construction of the Quevedo-Manta Highway.1

  1. For previous documentation on financing Ecuadoran highway development, see Foreign Relations, 1947, vol. viii, pp. 690 ff.↩