57 STAT.] ETHIOPIA-MUTUAL WAR AID -AUG. 9, 1943 ARTICLE VII In the final determination of the benefits to be provided to the United States of America by the Government of Ethiopia in return for aid furnished under the Act of Congress of March 11, 1941, the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as not to burden commerce between the two countries, but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world- wide economic relations. To that end, they shall include provision for agreed action by the United States of America and Ethiopia, open to participation by all other countries of like mind, directed to the expansion, by appropriate international and domestic meas- ures, of production, employment, and the exchange and consump- tion of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimination of all forms of discrimina- tory treatment in international commerce; to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers; and, in general, to the attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made on August 14, 1941, by the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At an early convenient date, conversations shall be begun be- tween the two Governments with a view to determining, in the light of governing economic conditions, the best means of attaining the above-stated objectives by their own agreed action and of seeking the agreed action of other like-minded Governments. ARTICLE VIII This Agreement shall take effect as from this day's date. It shall continue in force until a date to be agreed upon by the two Governments. Signed and sealed at Washington in duplicate this ninth day of August, 1943. FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF TIIE UNITEI) STATES OF AMEIIICA: [SEAL] CORDELL HULL Secretary of State of the United States of America FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA: [SEAL] Y DERESSA Vice-Minister of Finance of Ethiopia EXCHANGE OF NOTES The Secretary of State to the Vice Minister of Finance of Ethiopia DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON August 9, 1943 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to the conversations that have occurred between the representatives of our two Governments in connection with the agreement signed at Washington on this day, between the 81077°- 4 4-PT . II1 -26 1045 Terms and condi- tions of benefits. 55 Stat. 31 . 22 1. S .C .,Supp.II , §§ 411-419. Ante, p. 20. 55 Stat. 1603 . Effective date; du- ration.
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