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63 STAT.] FINLAND-AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES-MAR . 29, 1949 In the event that such agreement is reached, each contracting party will exercise its best efforts to put such rate into effect as regards its airline or airlines. If agreement has not been reached at the end of the thirty (30) Provisional rate pending settlement of day period referred to in paragraph (C) above, the proposed rate dispute may, unless the aeronautical authorities of the country of the airline concerned see fit to suspend its application, go into effect provisionally pending the settlement of any dispute in accordance with the pro- cedure outlined in paragraph (H) below. (G) Prior to the time when such power may be conferred by law upon the aeronautical authorities of the United States, if one of the contracting parties is dissatisfied with any rate proposed by the air- line or airlines of either contracting party for services from the ter- ritory of one contracting party to a point or points in the territory of the other contracting party, it shall so notify the other prior to the expiry of the first fifteen (15) of the thirty (30) day period referred to in paragraph (C) above, and the contracting parties shall endeavor to reach agreement on the appropriate rate. In the event that such agreement is reached, each contracting party will use its best efforts to cause such agreed rate to be put into effect by its airline or airlines. It is recognized that if no such agreement can be reached prior to the expiry of such thirty (30) days, the contracting party raising the objection to the rate may take such steps as it may consider neces- sary to prevent the inauguration or continuation of the service in question at the rate complained of. (H) When in any case under paragraphs (F) and (G) above the 0Adtviso report by aeronautical authorities of the two contracting parties cannot agree within a reasonable time upon the appropriate rate after consulta- tion initiated by the complaint of one contracting party concerning the proposed rate or an existing rate of the airline or airlines of the other contracting party, upon the request of either, both contracting parties shall submit the question to the International Civil Aviation Organization for an advisory report, and each party will use its best efforts under the powers available to it to put into effect the opinion expressed in such report. SCHEDULE 1. An airline or airlines designated by the Government of the United States of America shall be entitled to operate air services on the air routes specified in this paragraph, via intermediate points, in both directions, and to make scheduled landings in Finland at the points so specified: The United States over a North Atlantic route to Helsinki. 2. An airline or airlines designated by the Government of Finland shall be entitled to operate air services on the air routes specified in this paragraph, via intermediate points, in both directions, and to 2557