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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. United States and Spain on the tenth day of December, eighteen hun- dred and ninety-eight, the limits of which are set forth in Article III of said treaty, together with all the islands embraced in the treaty concluded at Washington, between the United States and Spain on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred, and in the treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the second day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, and all territory over which the present Government of the Philippine Islands exercises jurisdiction." WHEREAS the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of the Philippines and the Vice-President and Concurrently Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines have exchanged notes making certain clarifying amendments to said agreement, which notes are in words and figures as follows: THE FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA October 22, 1946. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to make the following statement of my Govern- ment's understanding of recent conversations held at Manila relative to the correction of certain typographical errors in the Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of the Philip- pines concerning Trade and Related Matters during a Transitional Period following the Institution of Philippine Independence, signed at Manila on July 4, 1946, and in the Protocol and the Annexes to that Agreement, and relative to the making of certain clarifying amendments therein. Ante,p.2614 . 1. In Article II, Paragraph 3, second sentence, (a) the phrase "unrefined sugar specified in Item A" shall be changed to read "unre- fined sugars specified in Item A", (b) the phrase "refined sugar speci- fied in Item A-i" shall be changed to read "refined sugars specified in Item A-i", and (c) the phrase "shall be allotted annually by the Philippines" shall be changed to read "shall be allocated annually by the Philippines". Ane, p. 261. 2. The column headings of the Schedule to Article II and Items A and A-i of such Schedule shall be changed to read as follows: "I U tem Classes ofArticl, Amouts A Sugars 952,000 short tons, A-1 of which not to exceed .................. .5 6,000 short tons may be refined sugars, meaning 'direct- consumption sugar' as defined in Section 101 of the Sugar Act of 1937 of the United States which is set forth in part as Annex I to this Agreement." Ante, p. 2615 . 3. In Item B of the Schedule to Article II the phrase "including binding twines described" shall be changed to read "including bind- 2632