1480 Prohibitions or re- strictions. Termination of pre- vious agreement. 47 Stat. 2682 . Duration of present agreement. Initiation of nego- tiations for treaty of friendship, etc. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [52 STAT. ritories or possessions, the Philippine Islands, or the Panama Canal Zone to one another or to the Republic of Cuba shall be excepted from the operation of this Agreement; and this Agreement shall not apply in respect of advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America or the Republic of Chile to adjacent countries in order to facilitate short frontier traffic. 5. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a limitation of the right of either country to impose on such terms as it may see fit prohibitions or restrictions (1) imposed on moral or humanitarian grounds; (2) designed to protect human, animal or plant health or life; (3) relating to prison made goods; (4) relating to the enforcement of police or revenue laws; or (5) relating to the control of the export or sale for export of arms, ammunition, or implements of war, and, in exceptional circumstances, all other military supplies. 6. The agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Chile signed September 28, 1931, shall terminate, if it will not have already automatically terminated, on the day on which the present agreement comes into force. 7. The present agreement shall continue in force until superseded by a more comprehensive commercial agreement or by a definitive treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation, or until denounced by either country by advance written notice of not less than thirty days. 8. Both Governments undertake immediately to initiate negotia- tions for the conclusion of a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation. Accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest and most dis- tinguished consideration. WESLEY FROST Charge d'Ajfaires ad interim His Excellency Sefior don JosE RAM6N GUTIERREZ ALLIENDE, Ministerfor ForeignAffairs, Santiago. The Chilean Minister for Foreign Affairs (Gutierrez) to the American Charge d'Affaires (Frost) REPfJBLICA DE CHILE MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES GG/ad.- SECCI6N POLfTICA COMERCIAL. N°.-97 SANTIAGO, 6 de Enero de 1938. SEROR ENCARGADO DE NEGOCIOS: Tengo el honor de confirmar a V. S . los siguientes t6rminos del Convenio Provisional de Comercio que nuestros respectivos Gobiernos
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