TREATIES ARTICLE 17. Import require- ments of China. Exports by Nether- lands. The Government of China will use its best endeavours, so far as circumstances permit, to the end that the sugar import requirements of the Chinese market shall not decrease during the period of the present Agreement. ARTICLE 18. The Government of the Netherlands, in respect of its territory in Europe, undertakes to refrain from net exports of sugar; it reserves the right to cover the requirements of its home market by its home production and imports from other parts of the Kingdom. The Government of the Netherlands, in respect of Netherlands Guiana, undertakes to refrain from net exports of sugar to countries outside the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Chapter IV. - Export Quotasfor the Free Market. ARTICLE 19. (a) The Contracting Governments shall quotas for the free market which are set out have the basic export below:- Country. Belgium (including Belgian Congo) ...... Brazil .................. Cuba ................... Czechoslovakia. .............. Dominican Republic ............ Germany .. . . . . . . ... .. . . .. Haiti................... Hungary................. Netherlands (including overseas territories) . Portugal (including overseas possessions) . .. Peru................... Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basic Quota (metric tons). 20, 000 60, 000 940, 000 250, 000* 400, 000 120, 000 32, 500 40, 000 1, 050, 000 30, 000 330, 000 120,000 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (excluding exports to Mongolia, Tannu Tuva and Sin- Kiang)..................230,000 Total ..... . . ......... . 3, 622, 500
- Czechoslovakia will receive the following extra allotments:-
Year beginning- September 1, 1937: 90,000 metric tons. September 1, 1938: 60,000 " " September 1, 1939: 25,000 " " it being understood that Czechoslovakia will take steps to reduce its acreage to correspond to those figures. (b) It is further provided that 47,500 tons for the free market shall be placed in reserve. This reserve quota, if needed, will be at the disposal of those Governments which, while they have no separate quotas, have before signing the present Agreement, taken measures to balance their production and consumption, and have not been 930 [59 STAT.
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