54 STAT.] IRAQ-COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION-DEC. 3, 1938 receive fair and equitable treatment, and that, in making its foreign purchases, such monopoly or agency will be influenced solely by those considerations which would normally be taken into account by a private commercial entreprise interested solely in purchasing goods on the most favorable terms. Article V Should measures be taken by either High Contracting Party seri- ously affecting the chief exports of the other Party, the Party taking such measures will give sympathetic consideration to any representa- tions which the other Party may make in respect to such measures. If agreement with respect to the question or questions involved in such representations shall not have been reached within ninety days from the date of the receipt of the said representations the Govern- ment making the representations may, notwithstanding the provi- sions of Article VII, terminate this Treaty, such termination to be effective at the expiration of thirty days from the date of the receipt of a notification given subsequent to the expiration of the ninety- day period provided herein. Article VI The present Treaty shall, from the day on which it comes into force supplant Article 7 of the convention between the United States of America and Great Britain and Iraq signed at London January 9, 1930, in so far as commerce and navigation are concerned. 1793 Conditions of ter- mination. Article VII The present Treaty shall take effect in all its provisions on the thirtieth day after the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force for the term of three years from that day. If neither High Contracting Party notifies to the other at least one year in advance an intention of terminating the Treaty upon the expiration of the afore- said period of three years, the Treaty shall remain in full force and effect after the aforesaid period and until one year from such a time as either of the High Contracting Parties shall have notified to the other an intention of terminating the Treaty. Article VIII The present Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Baghdad as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed their seals thereto. Done in duplicate in the English and Arabic languages, which have the same value and shall have equal force, at Baghdad this 3rd day of December, 1938, of the Christian Era, corresponding with the 10th. day of Shawaal, 1357, of the Hijra. [SEAL] PAUL KNABENSHUE [SEAL] T. SWAIDI Article 7 of existing convention sup- planted. 47 Btat. 1819. Effective date; du- ration. Ratification. Signatmue
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