APPENDIX 6 AGREEMENT OF APRIL 11, 1922, Between Australia and New ZEALAND PROVIDING FOR RECIPROCAL TARIFF CONCESSIONS (As officially published by the Commonwealth of Australia.) AGREEMENT made this eleventh day of April, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-two Between the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (hereinafter called "the Commonwealth") of the one part and the DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND (hereinafter called "the Dominion ") of the other part: WHEREAS with a view to the arrangement of more equitable trade relations between the Commonwealth and the Dominion, the Ministers of Customs for the said countries have agreed to recommend to their respective Parliaments Customs duties in accordance with the Schedule attached hereto : NOW THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows: 1. The said Schedule shall come into force on a date to be proclaimed by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth and the Governor-General of the Dominion, after the Parliaments of both countries have signified their acceptance thereof, and shall (subject to the provisions of this Agreement) remain in force until six months' notice of the termination thereof has been given by either party. 2. The Commonwealth shall not impose any customs duty or increase the rate of any customs duty on any article entering the Commonwealth from the Dominion, and the Dominion shall not impose any customs duty or increase the rate of any customs duty on any article entering the Dominion from the Commonwealth (whether such article is or is not specifically enumerated in the Schedule hereto, and whether such article is. or is not dutiable at the date of this Agreement), except by 577] 367 mutual agreement, until after six months' notice to the other party to this Agreement. 3. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to affect the right of the Commonwealth or of the Dominion to impose new duties upon any articles for the protection of any new industry established or proposed to be established in the Commonwealth or the Dominion as the case may be; provided that such new duties do not exceed the duties imposed on the importation of similar articles from the United Kingdom into the Commonwealth or the Dominion as the case may be. 4. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to affect the right of the Commonwealth or the Dominion to bring into force suspended or deferred duties, or to collect or impose dumping duties, or analogous special duties to meet abnormal trading conditions. 5. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to affect the right of the Commonwealth to impose primage or other general duties, provided that such duties on goods imported from New Zealand do not exceed the duties imposed on similar goods imported from the United Kingdom. 6. All goods enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be liable to such primage duty, if any, upon entry into the Dominion, as shall for the time being be in force, provided that such duty does not exceed the primage duty on similar goods imported from the United Kingdom. 7. Goods imported into the Commonwealth, and thereafter transhipped to the Dominion, which if they had been imported direct from the country of origin to the Dominion would have been entitled to be entered under the British Preferential Tariff in the Dominion, shall, upon production of a certificate from the Customs Department of the Commonwealth stating the country of origin of the goods and such other information as is required, be entitled to be entered under the British Preferential Tariff in the Dominion. 8. Goods imported into the Dominion, and thereafter transhipped to the Commonwealth, which if they had been imported direct from the country of origin to the Commonwealth would have been entitled to be entered under the British Preferential Tariff in the Commonwealth, shall, upon production of a certificate from the Customs Department of the Dominion stating the country of origin of the goods and such other information as is required, be entitled to be entered under the British Preferential Tariff in the Commonwealth. 9. The provisions of the last two preceding clauses of this Agreement shall operate from the first day of May One thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, notwithstanding that this Agreement may not at that date have been ratified by the Parliament of either country. 10. No special rebate or bounty shall be granted by the Commonwealth or the Dominion in respect of the sugar contained in any goods exported from the Commonwealth or the Dominion, as the case may be, to the Dominion or the Commonwealth. FIRST NINE ITEMS OF THE TARIFF SCHEDULE NOTE. (1) Where any item bears after it the letters n. e. i., these letters shall be interpreted in the same sense as when applied to the Tariff Items from which the Items of this Schedule are derived. (2) Goods entering Australia from New Zealand at present fall under the General Tariff, and goods entering New Zealand from Australia are treated in the same manner. [See table on next page.] APPENDIX 7 TEXT OF SECTIONS 301, 302 and 303 OF THE FORDNEY BILL AS Passed by the House of RepresentaTIVES (H. R. 7456, 67th Congress, 1st and 2d Sessions. From Senate Document, no. 187, 67th Congress, 2d Session, pp. 100 et seq.) SEC. 301 That whenever the President of the United States, with a view to securing reciprocal trade with any foreign country, dependency, colony, province, or other political subdivision of government, shall enter into a commercial treaty therewith concerning the admission into any such country, dependency, colony, province, or other political subdivision of government, of the goods, wares, and merchandise of the United States and their use and disposition therein, deemed to be for the interests of the United States, and in such treaty, in consideration of the advantages accruing to the United States therefrom, shall provide for the reduction of the duties imposed by this Act upon such goods, wares, or merchandise as may be designated therein of the country, dependency, colony, province, or other political subdivision of government with which such treaty shall be made as in this section provided; or shall provide for the transfer from the dutiable list of this Act to the free list thereof of such goods, wares, and merchandise, being the natural products of such foreign country, dependency, colony, province, or other political subdivision of government and not of the United States; or shall provide for the retention upon the free list of this Act of such goods, wares, and merchandise now included in said free list as may be designated therein; and when any such treaty shall have been duly ratified by the Senate and approved by Congress, and public proclamation made accordingly, then and thereafter the duties which shall be collected by the United States upon any of the 581] 371 |