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928 Undertakings by Government of the United Kingdom. Undertakings by Government of the Commonwealth of Australia. Undertakings by Government of the Union of South Africa. Right reserved TREATIES [59 STAT. 800,000 long tons of unrefined sugar plus 50,000 long tons of refined sugar per calendar year, the Commonwealth of the Philippines shall be allotted a basic export quota for the free market equal to the quantity by which such quota in the United States is reduced plus the 4 per cent. above mentioned. (c) The Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines will I lot claim any quota for export to the free market because of any change which may take place during the period of the present Agree- ment in the tariff conditions under which Philippine sugar is admitted into the United States, and in return the Contracting Governments agree not to claim, in virtue of any most-favoured- nation rights granted to them by the Government of the United States, the benefit of any advantages with respect to sugar which may be accorded to, or agreed upon with, the Philippines by the Government of the United States during the period of the present Agreement. ARTICLE 11. The Government of the United Kingdom undertakes, subject to the provisions of Article 14 below- (a) To maintain in operation during the period of the present Agreement those provisions of the Sugar Industry (Reor- ganization) Act, 1936, designed to limit the annual produc- tion of sugar in Great Britain to a standard quantity of 560,000 long tons of white sugar (i. e., approximately 618,000 metric tons raw value). (b) That during the period of the present Agreement the total exports from the British Colonial Empire shall be limited to a basic figure of 965,254 metric tons per quota year. ARTICLE 12. The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia undertakes, subject to the provisions of Article 14 below, to limit exports from Australia to a basic figure of 406,423 metric tons per quota year during the period of the present Agreement. ARTICLE 13. Tile Government of the Union of South Africa undertakes, subject to the provisions of Article 14 below, to limit exports from the Union to a basic figure of 209,000 metric tons per quota year during the period of the present Agreement. ARTICLE 14. (a) The Government of the United Kingdom, the Government of the (commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the Union of South Africa reserve the right respectively to increase the standard quantity for production in Great Britain and the basic quotas for exports of the Colonial Empire, Australia and South Africa, specified above, proportionately to any increase in requirements over and above the consumption requirements for the year ending the 31st August,