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EXECITTIVE AGREEMENTS Provisional agreement between the United States of America and Bulgaria August 18, 1932. respecting commercial relations. Effected by exchange of notes, signed August 18,1932; effective Aug'ust 18, 1932. The American Minister (Shoemaker) to the Bulgarian }.,finister for Foreign Affairs (Mooshanoff) LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 18, 1932. MR. MINISTER: I have the honor to confinn and to make of record by this note the m~oOtmw~~c~~lgar~;~ee­ following provisional commercial agreement between our respective governments. The United States will accord to goods, the growth, produce or manufacture of Bulgaria and Bulgaria will accord to goods, the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States in all respects and unconditionally the most favored nation treatment. The said treatment shall apply to all goods from whatever place arriving including goods destined for consumption or re-exportation or in transit. The stipulations of this agreement do not extend to the treatment which is accorded by the United States to the commerce of Cuba under the provisions of the commercial convention concluded between the United States and Cuba on December 11, 1902, or the provisions of any other commercial convention which hereafter may be con- cluded between the United States and Cuba. Such stipulations more- over do not extend to the treatment which is accorded to the com- merce between the United States and the Panama Canal Zone or any dependency of the United States or to the commerce of the depend- encies of the United States with one another under existing or future laws. Nothing in this agreement shall be construed as a limitation of the right of either high contracting party to impose on such terms as it may see fit prohibitions or restrictions of a sanitary character designed to protect human, animal or plant life or regulations for the enforce- ment of police or revenue laws. The present agreement becomes operative on this eighteenth day of August, 1932, and shall continue in force until superseded by a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation, or until denounced by one of the two High Contracting Parties by advance notice of three months. If however either party should be prevented by the future 1753