Indian Treaty Series

Letter dated the 16th October 1962, from Mr. Enrico Carrara, Charge d,affair Embassy of Italy, New Delhi, addressed to D S. Joshi Special. Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Delhi.

I have the honour to refer to the Trade Arrangement set out by the letters exchanged on the 6th October, 1959 between S.E. Ambasciatoro CASTO CARUSO, Director General Deali Affari Lomici, Ministers degli Affari'Leteri, Rome and Shri K.B. Lall, additional Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which read on the 30th June, 1961 and to our recent discussions regarding ending the validity of the Trade Arrangement. It was agreed between us that the Trade Arrangement should be renewed with effect 30th June, 1961 for a further period of two years, provided - that it will be open to either party to terminate the Arrangement by giving month's notice.

I shall be grateful if you will please confirm that this letter correctly sets out the understanding reached between us.

Letter dated the 16th October, 1962 from Shri D.S. Joshi, Special Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi to H.E. Enrico Carrara, Charge dAffairs, Embassy of Italy, New Delhi.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated -6th October, 1962, which reads as follows :

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I confirm that this sets out correctly the understanding reached between us.

RENEWAL OF TRADE ARRANGEMENT

EXCHANGE & OF LETTERS, Rome, 7 th JuLy 1964

Rome
7th July 1964

Dear Mr. ORTONA,

I have the honour to refer to the Trade Arrangement set out in letters exchanged between the Representatives of the Governments

"India and Italy on the 6th October, 1959 which was later renewed extended upto 30th June, 1963. In accordance with Article 12 of Trade Arrangement a Commission composed of the representatives ,the two Governments met recently in Rome for renewal of the Trade Agreement, and agreed that the Trade Arrangement between India d Italy will be renewed with effect from 30th June, 1963 for a further period of two years i.e. upto 30th June, 1965 and that thereafter it I continue to be valid for one year at a time, provided that it may terminated by either party by giving one month's notice, to the other ore the expiration of the date of validity. They also agreed to amend e other articles of the Trade, Arrangement of 1959.

Accordingly, it was agreed that the following amendments shall made in the Trade Arrangement, 1959 :

1. The Schedules of commodities attached to the Trade Arrangement will be replaced by the revised Schedules appended hereto. The revised Schedules will form an integral part of the Trade Arrangement.

2. Para 2 of Article 7 of the Trade Arrangement will be modified to read as follows

"The practice of fishing and coastal trade as well as maritime activities which the Parties reserve to their nationals are to be excluded from the present Agreement."

3. Articles 13 of the Trade Arrangement will be deleted.

4. Article 14 of the Trade Arrangement will be renumbered as Article 13 and will be amended to read as follows

"(13) This Agreement shall come into effect immediately and shall remain valid upto 30th June 1965. It shall thereafter continue to be valid for one year at a time, provided that it may be terminated by either party by giving one month's notice to the other before the expiration of the date of validity".

On behalf of the Government of India, I have the honour to convey our confirmation of the above decisions. I shall be grateful if you will please confirm that the above sets out correctly the understanding reached between us. This letter and your reply thereto will constitute an agreement between our two Governments which shall come into force on the date on which your reply is received.

Please accept, Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.

H.E. Ambassador EGIDIO ORTONA General Director for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROME.

Yours sincerely,

Sdl
SUNDAR N. HAKsAR
Ambassador of India to Italy


LIST OF SOME OF THE GOODS AVAILABLE FOR
EXPORT FROM ITALY TO INDIA

I. Dairy products
2. Fruits and peels, candied
3. Starch, farine and dextrins
4 Seed, potatoes and spring. potatoes
5. Garlic, onions and other fresh vegetables
6. Dried fruit
7. Tomato conserves
8. Canned foodstuffs (fruit pulp, pickles, etc.)
9. Macaroni, spaghetti and vermicelli
10. Preserved foodstuffs
11. Beverages, non alcoholic, and mineral water
12. Wines, vermouth, marsala, liquors
13. Forage seeds
14. Sewing thread, cotton
15. Cotton yam
16. Cotton fabrics
17. Cotton knitted apparel
18. Shoddy wool and wool waste
19. wool, raw, synthetic, in tops
20. Hand knitting wool
21. Woollen yam, pure and mixed
22. Shoddy woollen yarn
23. Woollen hosiery and knitted apparel
24. Woollen fabrics and manufactures
25 , Blankets, plaids, scarves and shawls
26. Woollen carpets, floor rugs
27. Felts for paper mills
28. Felts for caps and hats
29. Raw silk
30. Silk cocoons
31. Spun silk yarn
32. Silk and socks and stockings
33. Silk fabrics and manufactures
34, Artificial silk yarn
35. Artificial silk fabrics
36, Staple Fibre
37. Velvet and ribbon
38. Mixed fabrics, made of any textile fibre
39. Elastic ribbon and fabrics
40. Haberdashery
41. Snap fasteners
42. Zip fasteners
43. Hats and caps
44. Buttons
45. Corozo nut blanks for buttons
46 Manufacture of aluminium and alloy therof
47 Magnesium alloys and manufactures thereof-
48 Manufactures of lead tin zinc and alloys therof
49 Collapsible tubes for paint perfumery varnished and the like
50 Domestic hardware stoves enamelled for bath tubs
51 Builder hardware viz., panel pins scres ox and dog chains etc
52 Other hardware viz., door-locks suitcase
53 Incandescent pressure lamps
54 Incandescent mantles
55 Table Glassware
56 Vacuum flasks
57 Glass articles for technical uses
58 Porcelain insulators
59 Domestic china and porcelain majolica and ceramic products
60 Porcelain insulators
61 Other porcelain majolica and ceramic products
62 Earthenware pipes and sanitaryware
63 Glazed and enamelled tiles, any type
64 Table cutlery
65 Railway rolling stock
66 Railway and tramway axes wheels
67 Fall and roller bearing
68 Other iron and steel manufactures
69. Agricultural machinery and parts thereof
70. Tractors and spare parts thereof
71. Building and construction machinery and parts thereof
72. Dyeing, bleaching and mercerizing machinery and parts thereof.
73. Machinery for mines and quarries, and parts thereof.
74. Tanning machinery and machinery for the leather industry, and parts thereof.
75. Machinery for flour-mills, macaroni works, bakeries, etc. and parts thereof
76. Machinery for confectioneries, and parts thereof.
77. Machinery for aerated-water industry, and parts thereof.
78. Machinery for paper industry, and parts thereof
79. Printing machinery and parts thereof
80. Printing types
81. Machinery or book-binding, and parts thereof
82. Machinery for working moulding powders, and parts thereof.
83. Machinery and plant for refrigeration and cold storage, and parts thereof
84. Air conditioning machinery and plant, and parts thereof
85. Machinery and instruments for the manufacture of electric bulbs and parts thereof
86. Tools and instruments for arts and crafts
87. Woodworking machinery
88. Textile machinery including machinery for hosiery, hat making, netmaking, and parts thereof
89. Textile mill stores (tubes, bobbins, shuttles, etc.)
90. Card clothing.
91. Sewing machines, domestic and industrial, and parts thereof
92. Typewriters, adding machines, calculating machines, also electric, and parts thereof
93. Cash-registers, and parts thereof
94. Presses, hydraulic, and of other types
95. Pumps, compressors, motor-compressors, ventilators and parts thereof
96. Transformers, auto-transformers, reactance coils and parts thereof
97. Electrical generators and motors
98. Turbines
99. Electric stoves, cooking ranges, refrigerators, water-heaters and parts thereof
100. Exhaust fans
101. Electric table fans
102. Other electrical appliances
103. Machine tools, including automatic machine tools
104. Internal combustion engines for vehicles of cylinder capacity about 4,000 cu. cm.
105. Motors, including piston engines
106. Industrial furnaces, all sorts, and parts thereof
107 Other machinery
108. Scientific, engineering, optical instruments and apparatus
109. Spectacles, including glare glasses and goggles; spectacles frames, sunglasses and other optical materials
110. Alarm clocks; watches including time indicators
111. Meters, all sorts
112. Apparatus and material for radiotelephony, radiotelegraphy, and radio reception and broadcasting
113. Apparatus and equipment for cinematography
114. Photographic cameras, including carrying cases
115 Photographic material (photographic papers, films, plates, etc.)
116. Raw films for cinematography
117. Italian films, exposed jig. Electric bulbs, and electrical material including carbon brushes and graphite electrodes
120. Welding electrodes
121. Auto-vehicles and parts thereof
122. Industrial auto-vehicles and parts thereof
123. Spare parts and accessories for auto-vehicles
124. Motor-cycles, bicycles, and motor-scooters and motor-vans, accessories and parts thereof
125. Auto attachments for bicycles
126. Pneumatic motor tyres and tubes
127. Giant rubber tyres and tubes, not manufactured in India
128. Rubber tubes, pipes belting threads, and other rubber manufactures
129. Rubber shoes
130. Oil-cloth, parchments and artificial leather
131. Marble and raw alabaster
132. Marble and alabaster, wrought
133. Gypsum
134. Sulphur, raw and refined
135. Asbestos, raw and in sheets, unsuitable for weaving
136. Articles made of asbestos-cement
137. Cement other than Portland and plaster of Paris
138. Articles made of cement, viz. pipes, tubes, tiles etc.
139. Refractory materials, and articles thereof
140. Abrasive products, namely emery carborundum, and the like, including sand - and cloth
141. Earths, bleaching, viz. Fuller's earth, talc and similar
142. Bleaching powder
143. Graphite crucibles
144. Mercury
145. Ketic acid
146. Citric acid
147. Tartaric acid and cream of tartar materials
149. Tanning extract
150. Dyestuffs
151. Inorganic chemical products
152. Organic chemical products
153. Motor spirit, kerosene and other petroleum products
154. Antibiotics and sulfa preparations
'155. P.A.S.
156. Other medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations
157. Pesticides and weedicides
158. Perfumery, synthetic perfumes and essences
159. Essential oils
160. Raw cork and cork manufactures
161. Hardboards, porous or impermeable
162. Moulding powders, celluloid, bakelite and the like
163. Cellulose transparent paper
164. Cigarette paper
165. Paper, other types and cardboards
166. Manufactures of paper and boards
167. Books, magazines, newspapers, printed papers and music scores arid music books
168 Stationery articles including fountain pens, ball pens and nibs
169 Accordions and other musical instruments
170. Gramophones end parts thereof
171. Long-playing gramophone records
172. Tobacco, unmanufactured
173. Cigarettes and cigars
174. Smoker's pipes
175. Sporting and hunting arms and ammunition
176. Cartridge cases filled and empty
177. Toys, educational
178. Fishing rods, reels and hooks
179. Fire extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment
180. Vulcanised fibre
181. Umbrellas, and parts thereof
182. Brushes, all sorts
183, Dental goods, apparatus and appliances
184. Steel screws, bolts and nuts
185. Leather belting, any type
186. Silkworm eggs
187. Confectioneries, all sorts
188. Hydrofluoric acid
189. Aluminium Fluoride
190. Phenols
191. Fertilizers, any type
192. Celluloid
193. Hides and skins, tanned, for shoemaking industry
194. Coated papers and boards
195. Acrylic fibres
196. Brake and clutch linings
197. Enamelled tiles, any type
1c8. Iron and steel, any type
199. Cylinders for gas
200. Metalworking machinery
201. Apparatus and equipment for petroleum industry
202. Machineries and equipment for soap and synthetic detergent industries
203. Synthetic rubber
204. Transformers and reactance coils, and parts thereof
205. Electric plates and commutators
206. Microphones, loud speakers, amplifiers and other echo sounding apparatus
207. Electronic control apparatus for industries, electronic equipment for telecommunication, any type
208. Electric generators and alternators, motors and convertors, transformers and switch gear, any type, complete and parts
209. Phototeenic apparatus
210. Apparatus and equipment for topography
211. Projectors and optical comparators
212. Glass syringes
213. Surgical, medical and dental instruments and appliances, any type, electric or riot
214. Automatic pistols and guns
215. Almonds, nuts and other shell fruits
216. Manna

Rome,
7th July, 1964

Dear Mr. HAKSAR,

I acknowledge receipt of your letter which reads as follows :

I have the honour to refer to the Trade Arrangement set out in the letters exchanged between the Representatives of the Governments of India and Italy on the 6th October, 1959 which was later renewed and extended upto 30th June, 1963. In accordance with Article 12 of the Trade Arrangement, a Commission composed of the representatives of the two Governments met recently in Rome for renewal of the Trade Arrangement and agreed that the Trade Arrangements between India and Italy will be renewed with effect from 30th June, 1963 for a further period of two years i.e. upto 30th June, 1965 and that thereafter it will continue to be valid for one year at a time, provided that it may be terminated by either party by giving one month notice to the other before the expiration of the date of validity. They also agreed to amend some other articles of the Trade Arrangement of 1959.

Accordingly, it was agreed that the following amendments shall be made in the Trade, Arrangement, 1959 :

1. The Schedules of commodities attached to the Trade Arrangement will be replaced by the revised Schedules appended hereto. The revised Schedules will form an integral part of the Trade Arrangement.

2. Para 2 of Article 7 of the Trade Arrangement will be modified to read as follows :

"The practice of fishing and coastal trade as well as maritime activities which the Parties reserve to their nationals are to be excluded from the present Agreement."

3. Articles 13 of the Trade Arrangement will be deleted.

4. Article 14 of the Trade Arrangement will be renumbered as Article 13 and will be amended to read as follows

"(13) This Agreement shall come into effect immediately and shall remain valid upto 30th June 1965. It shall thereafter continue to be valid for one year at a time, provided that it may be terminated by either party by giving one month's notice to the other before the expiration of the date of validity".

On behalf of the Government of India, I have the honour to convey our confirmation of the above decisions. I shall be grateful if you will please confirm that the above sets out correctly the understanding reached between us. This letter and your reply thereto will constitute an Agreement between our two Governments which shall come into force on the date on which your reply is received."

I hereby confirm the approval of my Government to the contents of the said letter.

Please accept, Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.

Sdl-

Ambassador EGIDO ORTONA
General Director for Economic Affairs,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

H.E. Ambassador SUNDAR N. HAKSAR,
Ambassador of India to Italy,
ROME.