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3738 RECIPROCAL TR.\'DE-HAITI. MARCH 28, 1935. I'ronlOtionoftraue. WHEREAS, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existin~ duties find other import restrictions of the United States of America find Haiti are unduly burdening and restricting tho foreign trade of tho United 48:~~· ~fk 1'. 7 0 b; Vol. States of America and that the purpose declared in the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, will be promot('d by a foreign trade agreement between the United States of America nnd the Republic of Haiti; Purposes ucdnred. 'WHEREAS, reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiato such foreign trade agreement was gin'n and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation of such Agreement were recch-ed and considered; 'VHEREAS, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce, and from other sources, I entered into It foreign trade agreement, through my duly empowered plenipotentiary on :March 28, 1935, with the Pre~ident of the Republic of Haiti, through his duly empowered pl~nipotentiary, which Agreement, in the English and French languages, including two Schedules annexed thereto, is in words and figures as follows: The President of the lTnited States of America and the Presi- dent of the Republic of Haiti, being desirous of strengthening the traditional bonds of friend- ship between the two countries by maintaining the principle of equality of treatment as the basis of commercial relations and by granting mutual and recipro- cal concessions and advantages for the promotion of trade, have, through their respective pleni- potentiaries, arrived at the fol- lowing Agreement: AR'l'ICLE I Le President des Etats-lJnis d'Amerique et Ie President de In Republique d'Haiti, desirant ren- forcer les liens traditionnels d'amitie entre les deux pays en maintenallt Ie principe d'egalite de traitement comme base de leuN relations commerciales. ct en s'accordant des coneesslons mutuelles et des avantages reci- proques pour l'extension du com- merce, ont, par l'intermediaire de leurs plenipotentiaires respectifs, arrMe la Convention suivante AR'l'ICLE 1 . Enu~e~ated imp~rts On and after the day on which mto HaIti from Umted • • A partir du jour OU cctte Con- vention s~rn entrce en vigueur, tOllS les nrticles d'orif.,rine, de production on de fabrieution des Etats-Unis d'Ameriqlle, enume- res et decrits dans In Listo I f~nnexee ii, cette Convention et en faisant partie, exeepte reux enu- meres et decrits flUX pnragraphes numerot.es 11033, 12011 et 13007 seront exempts a leur importation dans In Hepublique d'Hniti, des droits ordinaires de dOllane exd- dant ceux enonces dans In £lite List(', et de tOllS ftut::-es droits, tux('s, impOts, obligatiops Ott con- tributions ctnhlis :\ l'imnortation States. this Agreement comes mto force, POIli, p. 374M. Exceptions. all articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America, enumerated and described in Schedule I annexed to this Agreement and made a part thereof, except those enumerated and described under items numbered 11033, 12011, and 13007, shall, on their . importation into the Republic No eXl'CSS duty, etc. of Haiti, be exempt fl'om ordinary customs duties in excess of those set forth in the said Schedule and from all other duties, taxes, fees, charges or exactions, imposed on