54 STAT.] GREAT BRITAIN-RECIPROCAL TRADE-NOV. 17, 1938 I have taken note with pleasure of Your Excellency's communica- tion in the above sense. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest con- sideration. His Excellency The Honorable SIR RONALD LINDSAY, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., C.V.0., British Ambassador. CORDELL HULL The Secretary of State (Hull) to the British Ambassador (Lindsay) DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 17, 1938. EXCELLENCY: During the course of the negotiation of the Trade Agreement signed this day, it has been explained that the fruit growers of certain parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations, together with the United Kingdom producers, have for some time past cooperated in an organ- ization called the Empire Fruits Council, which has made arrange- ments concerning the shipment of apples to the United Kingdom market from overseas, with the object of maintaining a stable and remunerative market in the interests of all concerned and of avoiding, so far as possible, temporary periods either of oversupply or of short- age. It is understood that British Empire producers of citrus fruits are also represented on this Council. It has been represented to me that the cooperation of the exporting interests in the United States, which is the only other major apple- exporting country, would be of great assistance in securing the orderly marketing of the apple crop and would be of no less benefit to them than to the other suppliers. I have the honor to inform you that the Government of the United States of America inclines to the view that it is in the general interest that the shipment of apples to the United Kingdom market should be so planned as to avoid excessive variations in supplies and prices, and that it will call the attention of United States exporting interests to the desirability of their cooperating with the Empire Fruits Council in such arrangements as may be feasible to assure the orderly supply of apples to the United Kingdom market. In the foregoing connection, your attention is invited to legislation in effect (Public No. 39, 73d Congress, approved June 10, 1933) which provides for the regulation of exports of apples (and pears) from the United States on the basis of grade or quality. Under this Act, the Department of Agriculture has issued regulations which require that all apples (and pears) shipped to foreign countries meet certain export standards. The effect of these regulations is to make large ship- ments of low-quality fruit to British or other foreign markets impossible. I understand that up to the present no similar arrangements have been made for planning the shipment of citrus fruits to the United Kingdom market, but that certain British Empire producers have expressed a desire for some form of arrangement for the orderly mar- keting of citrus fruits in the United Kingdom, with a view to avoiding disturbances resulting from sudden fluctuations in supplies. I have the honor to inform you that, if the principal supplying countries (in- cluding foreign countries) should agree to cooperate in arrangements for the orderly supply of citrus fruits to the United Kingdom market, the Government of the United States of America would call the atten- tion of United States exporters to the desirability of cooperating in any feasible arrangements to this end. 1993 48 Stat. 123. 7U.S.C.i581- 589.
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