The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-12


the delegates which are to be paid b,
/. their respective countries-shall be born,
, by all the contracting States, and shall
> be assessed among them according to
method to be decided upon by the com
|. mission.
ARTICLE VIII
The high contracting parties bind them.
selves their behalf and on behalf OF
their colonies and possessions. exception
being made in the case of the autonomous
colonies Of Great Britain and British
| West Indies, to resort to the measures
necessary to prevent bounty-fed sugar
which has passed through the territory
of contracting State from having the
Isame advantages as those accruing under
the convention on the market they are
ldestined for. The permanent commission
lshali present in this connection the nee
lesSary proposiuons.
| ARTICLE TX.
The States that have taken part in the
present convention shall be admitted to
adhere thereto upon request and after a
favorable report of the permanent COM
mission.
| The request shall be addressed through
the diplomatic channels to the Belgian
Government, which will take charge
Eventually of notifying the adhesion to
all the other Governments. The adhesion
shall involve, in full right, the accession
: to all charges and the admission to all
| advantages enumerated in the present
! convention, and it shall enter into force
| from September / following the trans
mission Of the notification by the Bel
gian Government to the other contract
/ ing States.
ARTICLE X.
| The present convention shall come into
force from September 1. 1908.
| 1t shall remain in force during the five
high contracting parties shall have nOti-
fed the Belgian Government twelve
months after the expiration of said period
of five years of its intention to have its
effects ceased, it shall continue for one
year, and so on from year to year.
In case one of the contracting States
were to denounce the convention, this
denunciation shall take effect only as it
may affect it's own interests; the other
States would retain, until October 81 of
the year of the denunciation, the privilege
of notifying their intention to also retire
on September 1 of the following year.
If one Of the latter intended to make
use of this privilege, the Belgian Cow
ernnent is to promote a meeting at Brus-
sels within three months Of a conference
which would have to determine the meas
ures to be resorted to.
ARTICLE XII.
The provisions of the present eonven-
ton shall apply to the provinces beyond
the seas, colonies and foreign possessions
of the high contracting parties. The
colonies and possessions of Great Britain
and the Netherlands, however. are not
to be included in this regulation, ex-
cept as far as it is provided in Articles !
V and VIII.
The status of the colonies and posses |
sions Of Great Britain and the Neither
lands is, moreover, defined by the dec |
larations inserted in the final protocol.
ARTICLE XII.
The execution of the reciprocal engage |
ments contained in the present conven- |
ticn is subjected. inasmuch as need be, |
to the performance Of the formalities and
rules established by the constitutional |
laws of each of the contracting States.
The present convention shall be ratified |
and notifications thereof shall be deposit !
ed at Brussels. at the Ministry of For |
eiSn Affairs, on February l. 1908, or |
earlier, if possible.
II is understood that the present con-
vention shall only become binding after
it has been ratified at least by the con-
tracing States that have not been af-
fected by the exceptional provision of Ar
ticle VI. In case one or several of the !
said States have not deposited their rati-
fcations within the time provided for,
the Belgian Government shall immediate
" endeavor to obtain a decision from
the other signatory States to the en-
tering into force of the present conven
ton among themselves.
II.-FINAL PROTOCOL.
At the moment of proceeding to the
signature of the convention relating to
the regime of sugars entered into on
this date by the Governments of Ger
Ilzle
Spain. France. Great Britain, Italy, the
and Sweden. the plenipoten-
-iaries have agreed to the following:
To Article III.-Consdering that the
purpose of SurtaX is to protect eff
the internal market of produc-
ng countries, the high contracting par
les reserve the right, each as it affects
ts own interests, to propose the increase
of the Surtax in case that considerable
of sugars from one of the con-
racting States should enter their coun-
ries, this increase to affect only the
sugars coming from that State.
This proposition shall be addressed to
he permanent commission, which will
lecide within a short delay, by vote of
he majority, upon the true foundation of
he proposed measure. upon the duration
# it's application, and upon the rate of
he increased tax, the latter not to ex-
'eed / franc per 100 Kilograms Q9 cents
Ter 90 pounds).
The adhesion of the commission can
My be given in case the invasion of
he market in question should be the
esult of an economical condition of real
nferiority. and not the result of a facti-
ious increase of prices promoted by an
among producers.
To Article I.-A-(D The Government
I Great Britain declares that no direct :
r indirect bounty shall be granted to
ugars from colonies of the Crown dur
NJ the existence of the convention.
90 1t declares also. by exceptional !
MEASURE and while still reserving. in prin-
iple. it's entire free action concerning
he fiscal relations between the United |
,ingdom and its colonies and possessions. ,
hat during the existence of the conven- ,
ion no preference shall be granted in /
he United Kingdom to colonial sugars /
is-a-vis the sugars coming from the con-
racting States.
Gl y declares that they will submit the
to the autonomous colonies c
nd to the West Indies in order that the
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