Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 54 Part 2.djvu/654

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54 STAT.] TURKEY-RECIPROCAL TRADE-APR . 1 , 1939 ARTICLE 9 The Government of the Turkish Republic undertakes that, so long as it maintains, directly or indirectly, any form of control of the means of international payment, it will provide, in any calendar year, for the transfer of payments for commercial importations of natural or manufactured products originating in the United States of America, imported into the territory of the Turkish Republic during the cal- endar year in question, an amount of free foreign exchange which shall not be less, in proportion to the total value of the commercial imports of the Turkish Republic during the said calendar year, than the amount corresponding to the proportion of the total commercial imports supplied by the United States of America in the period from January 1, 1935 to December 31, 1937. ARTICLE 10 The provisions of this Agreement relating to the treatment to be accorded by the United States of America and the Turkish Republic, respectively, to the commerce of the other country shall apply, on the part of the United States of America, to the continental territory of the United States of America and such of its territories and possessions as are included in its customs territory on the day of the signature of this Agreement. The provisions of this Agreement relating to most- favored-nation treatment shall apply, however, to all the territories under the sovereignty or authority of the United States of America, other than the Panama Canal Zone. Scope ofAgreement. ARTICLE 11 The provisions of this Agreement shall not apply to: (a) advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by either country to adjacent countries in order to facilitate frontier traffic within a zone not exceeding fifteen kilometers on either side of the frontier; (b) advantages resulting from a customs union to which either the United States of America or the Turkish Republic may become a party, so long as such advantages are not accorded to any third country; (c) advantages which the Turkish Republic has accorded or may hereafter accord in the matter of the customs tariff affecting products originating within the territories detached in 1923 from the Ottoman Empire; (d) advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America, its territories or possessions, or the Panama Canal Zone, to one another or to the Republic of Cuba, irrespective of any change in the political status of any of the terri- tories or possessions of the United States of America. Advantages to which provisions in- applicable. Adjacent countries. Customs union. Territoriesdetached from Ottoman Em- pire. U. S. trade with possessions, etc. 1875 Free foreign ex- change provisions.