55 STAT.] CUBA-RECIPROCAL TRADE-DEC. 23, 1941 will be promoted by a trade agreement to further supplement and amend the Trade Agreement entered into between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba on August 24, 1934, as amended by the said Agreement of December 18, 1939; WHEREAS, reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation of such agreement were received and considered; WHEREAS, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the De- partments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce, and from other sources, I entered into an exclusive and preferential Trade Agree- ment on December 23, 1941, through my duly empowered Plenipoten. tiary, with the President of the Republic of Cuba, through his duly empowered Plenipotentiary, to further supplement and amend the said Trade Agreement of August 24, 1934, as amended, which Agreement of December 23, 1941, in the English and Spanish languages, includ- ing an exchange of notes between the Ambassador of the United States of America at Habana and the Minister of State of the Re- public of Cuba, relating to the position of Cuban sugar in the United States market, is in words and figures as follows: 1451
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