PAN AMERICAN UNION[1]
- Special report adopted by the First International American Conference at Washington April 14, 1890
- Amended by resolution of January 29, 1902,[2] of the Second International American Conference, as amended
- Termination: Regulations (except those relating to personnel) repealed by resolution dated August 7, 1906[3] of the Third International American Conference; became obsolete December 13, 1951, upon entry into force of the Charter of the Organization of American States dated April 30, 1948[4]
Minutes of the International American Conference (Washington, 1890) p. 683; Senate Executive document 135, 51st Congress, 1st session
At the meeting of the Conference, held March 29, 1890, the following resolution was adopted:
"That the Governments here represented shall unite for the establishment of an American International Bureau for the collection, tabulation, and publication in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages of information as to the productions and commerce and as to the customs laws and regulations of their respective countries; such Bureau to be maintained in one of the countries for the common benefit and at the common expense, and to furnish to all the other countries such commercial statistics and other useful information as may be contributed to it by any of the American Republics. That the Committee on Customs Regulations be authorized and instructed to furnish to the Conference a plan of organization and a scheme for the practical work of the proposed Bureau."
- ↑ The bureau established in 1890 by the First International American Conference was called the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics. The Second Conference changed the name to the International Bureau of the American Republics (post, p. 344), and the Fourth Conference changed it to the Pan American Union (post, p. 752).
- ↑ Post, p. 344.
- ↑ Post, p. 535.
- ↑ 2 UST 2394; TIAS 2361.
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