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3746 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. penrisonal meate If agreement has not been reached at the end of the thirty (30) day period disp ute. referred to in paragraph (C) above, the proposed rate may, unless the aeronauti- cal authorities of the country of the air carrier concerned see fit to suspend its application, go into effect provisionally pending the settlement of any dispute in accordance with the procedure outlined in paragraph (H) below. (G) Prior to the time when such power may be conferred by law upon the aeronautical authorities of the United States, if one of the contracting parties. is dissatisfied with any rate proposed by the air carrier or carriers of either contracting party for services from the territory of one contracting party to a point or points in the territory of the other contracting party, it shall so notify the other prior to the expiry of the first fifteen (15) of the thirty (30) day period referred to in paragraph (C) above, and the contracting parties shall endeavor to reach agreement on the appropriate rate. In the event that such agreement is reached, each contracting party will use its best efforts to cause such agreed rate to be put into effect by its air carrier or carriers. It is recognized that if no such agreement can be reached prior to the expiry of such thirty (30) days, the contracting party raising the objection to the rate may take such steps as it may consider necessary to prevent the inauguration or continuation of the service in question at the rate complained, of. Advisory report. (H) When in any case under paragraph (F) and (G) above the aeronautical authorities of the two contracting parties cannot agree within a reasonable time upon the appropriate rate after consultation initiated by the complaint of one contracting party concerning the proposed rate or an existing rate of the air carrier or carriers of the other contracting party, upon the request of either, both contracting parties shall submit the question to the International Civil Aviation Organization for an advisory report, and each party will use its best efforts under the powers available to it to put into effect the opinion expressed in such report.