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Exchange of Notes (December 27, 1933, January 22 and February 12, 1934) extending for one year the Trade Agreement of July 6/8, 1933 [1934] CATSer 2 (1 January 1934)

E104783 - CTS 1934 No. 2

EXCHANGE OF NOTES (December 27, 1933, January 22 and February 12, 1934) EXTENDING FOR ONE YEAR THE TRADE AGREEMENT OF JULY 6/8, 1933

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The Austrian Minister at London to the Secretary of the High Commissioner's Office for Canada in Great Britain

AUSTRIAN LEGATION

LONDON, 27th December, 1933

Sir,

I thank you for your letter of the 22nd instant informing me of the telegraphic communication you have received from the Secretary of State, Department of External Affairs, according to which the Canadian Government is prepared to pass an Order in Council, extending the Tariff Agreement for one year from the 1st January, 1934, immediately on receipt of a telegraphic assurance that the Austrian Government is extending the Agreement for a like period.

I beg to advise you that I have just been instructed by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Department for Foreign Affairs) to signify the agreement of the Austrian Government to the above arrangement.

I should therefore be most grateful to you if you would inform the Secretary of State by telegram that the Austrian Government on their part have taken steps to renew for one year the Agreement granting the benefits of the Austrian most-favoured-nation tariff to Canadian imports as heretofore.

Yours faithfully,

G. Franckenstein

Austrian Minister

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The Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada to the Austrian Minister at London

DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
CANADA

OTTAWA, 22nd January, 1934

My Dear Minister,

I regret that pressure of administrative duties has not given me an oppor­tunity to reply at an earlier date to your letter of December 15th respecting the extension of the tariff arrangement between Canada and Austria which we negotiated during the World Economic Conference in London last summer. On December 20th I instructed the High Commissioner in London by cable to get in touch with you on the subject and I now wish to acknowledge your letter under reference and to express the hope that the extension of the Agreement may help to extend and facilitate the trade between our two countries. I enclose, for your information, copy of the Order in Council* of December 29th, 1933, extending the benefits of the Canadian Intermediate Tariff to Austrian goods for one year from January 1st, 1934.

Yours sincerely,

R. B. Bennett

* PC 2705 December 29, 1933. See Canada Gazette January 13, 1934

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The Austrian Minister at London to the Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada.

AUSTRIAN LEGATION

LONDON, 12th February, 1934

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

May I thank you for your letter of January 22nd, with which you kindly sent me copy of the Order in Council of December 29th, 1933, extending the benefits of the Canadian Intermediate Tariff to Austrian goods for one year as from January 1st, 1934.

Acting on your instructions, the High Commissioner for Canada in London was so good as to notify me immediately the Order in Council had been passed, so that I was able to inform my Government in good time that the tariff arrangement with Canada, to which they attach so much importance, had been extended for a further year.

Allow me to express to you my sincere gratitude for the kind assistance you have given to me on this as on previous occasions.

Yours sincerely,

G. Franckenstein