Canadian Treaty Series

E100600

INTERIM AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA RELATING TO THE RENEGOTIATION OF SCHEDULE XX (UNITED STATES) TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

Canada and the United States of America,

Having completed negotiations under Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (hereinafter referred to as "the General Agreement") looking toward the establishment of a consolidated Schedule XX (United States) in terms of the revised Tariff Schedules of the United States, and

Desiring to give effect promptly to the results of such negotiations pending the formal effectiveness of such consolidated Schedule XX,

Agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

The general level of concessions in Schedule XX initially negotiated by the United States with Canada will be maintained by the inclusion in consolidated Schedule XX of (a) concessions on products identified in the list in Annex I to this interim agreement at the rates therein specified, which products are therein identified in terms of the Tariff Schedules of the United States, as amended by legislation enacted prior to the date of this agreement, and (b) the concessions provided for in the schedules in Annex II.

ARTICLE II

The provisions of the schedule in Annex II shall be applied by the United States, as if they were included in a Schedule XX to the General Agreement, on and after a date to be specified in a proclama­tion by the President of the United States, which date shall be no later than January 1, 1966.

ARTICLE III

This agreement shall terminate at such time as consolidated Schedule XX to the General Agreement embodying the concessions described in Article I hereof shall have become formally effective.

DONE in duplicate at Wash­ington this 17th day of December 1965, in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic.

C. S. A. Ritchie

FOR CANADA

Bernard Norwood

FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA