Exception agreed to under Paragraph 2.

Bulgaria:

Rose trees and roots and shoots

Export

Chile:

Scrap iron and scrap zinc

Export

Mares

Export

Czechoslovakia:

Hop shoots

Export.

Portugal:

Fine wool

Export

Cork in the raw state

Export

Sweden:

Scrap iron

Export

Exceptions agreed to under Paragraph 2.

Czechoslovakia:

Quartzite

Export

Estonia:

Platinum, precious stones, pearls and corals (in a rough state or finished loose or mounted)

Export

Portugal:

Pine resin

Export

United States:

Helium gas

Export

Article B.

The High Contracting Parties agree that, in the event of the Agreements concluded on this day's date relating to the Exportation of Hides and Skins and Bones not coming into force in default of the necessary ratifications, each of them shall be authorised to submit subsequent requests for exceptions which they were entitled to submit under the provisions of Article 6 of the Convention and the annexed Protocol, and which they have not submitted in view of the aforesaid Agreements.

Such requests for exception shall be addressed to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations before September 30th, 1929, and shall be notified by him to the High Contracting Parties before October 31st, 1929.

The High Contracting Parties undertake to meet without delay upon receiving an invitation from the Secretary-General in order to examine the requests for exceptions referred to above.

Article C.

The High Contracting Parties agree that the Convention, in order to be brought into force, must have secured either ratification as provided for in Article 15 or accession as provided for in Article 16 of the said Convention on behalf of at least eighteen Members of the League of Nations oar non-Member States.

The ratifications must be deposited before September 30th, 1929.

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right to inform the Secretary-General of the League of Nations at the moment of the deposit of his ratification or of the notification of his accession that he makes the entry into force of the Convention, in so far as he is concerned, conditional on ratification or accession on behalf of certain countries, without, however, being entitled to specify countries other than those named below:

Austria,
Czechoslovakia,
France,
Germany,
Great Britain,
Hungary,
Italy,
Japan,
Poland,
Roumania,
Kingdom of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes,
Switzerland,
Turkey,
United States of America.

The Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall immediately inform each of the High Contracting Parties of each ratification or accession received and of any observations by which it may be accompanied in conformity with the preceding paragraph.

On October 31st, 1929, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall notify all

the Members of the League and non-Member States on behalf of which the Convention has been signed or acceded to under Article 16 of the Convention of the ratifications deposited and accessions notified before September 30th, 1929.

Article D.

If it appears from the communication of the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, which is referred to in the last paragraph of the preceding Article, that the conditions required in virtue of the first three paragraphs of the said Article and of the annexed Protocol have been fulfilled by September 30th, 1929, the Convention shall come into force on January 1st, 1930.

In the contrary event, the procedure laid down in the last paragraph of Article 17 of the Convention shall be followed.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the above-mention-ed Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Agreement.

DONE at Geneva on the eleventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations; certified true copies shall be forwarded to all the Members of the League of Nations and all the non-Member States represented at the Conference.

GERMANY

DR. ERNST TRENDELENBURG

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

HUGH R. WILSON

AUSTRIA

DR. RICHARD SCHULLER

BELGIUM

J. BRUNET

F. VAN LANGENHOVE

GREAT BRITAIN

AND NORTHERN IRELAND

And all parts of the British Empire which are not Separate Members of the League of Nations.

I declare that my signature does not include any of His Britannic Majesty's Colonies, Protectorates or territories under suzerainty or mandate.

S. J. CHAPMAN

INDIA

H. A. F. LINDSAY

On signing the present Supplementary Agreement, Bulgaria declares that it shall be ratified and put into force as soon as the national currency shall be re-established in gold.

D. MIKOFF

CHILE

TOMAS RAMIREZ FRIAS

DENMARK

J. CLAN

WILLIAM BORBERG

EGYPT

SADIK E. HENEIN

ESTONIA

A. SCHMIDT

FINLAND

RUDOLF HOLSTI

GUNNAR KIHLMAN

FRANCE

On signing the present Supplementary Agreement France declares that by its acceptance it does not intend to assume any obligation in regard to any of its Colonies, Protectorates and territories under its suzerainty or mandate.

D. SERRUYS

HUNGARY

NICKL

ITALY

A. DI NOLA
P. TROISE

JAPAN

ITO
J. TSUSHIMA

LATVIA

CHARLES DUZMANS

LUXEMBURG

ALBERT CALMES

NORWAY

GUNNAR JAHN

NETHERLANDS

POSTHUMA
F. M. WIBAUT
S. DE GRAAFF

POLAND

FRANÇOIS DOLEZAL

PORTUGAL

A. D'OLIVEIRA

F. DE CALHEIROS E MENEZES

ROUMANIA

ANTONIADE
D. T. GHEORGHIU
CASAR POPESCO

KINGDOM OF THE SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES

CONST. FOTITCH
GEORGES CURCIN

SIAM

CHAROON

SWEDEN

EINAR MODIG

SWITZERLAND

W. STUCKI

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

IBL

TURKEY

Subject to reservation as regards Article B.

HASSAN

Certified true copy.

For the Secretary-General:

J. A. BUERO m. p.

Legal Adviser of the Secretariat.

Protocol to the Supplementary Agreement.

At the moment of proceeding to the signature of the Supplementary Agreement to the International Convention for the Abolition of Import and Export Prohibitions and Restrictions signed on this day's date, the undersigned, duly authorised, have agreed on the following provisions, which are intended to ensure the application of the Supplementary Agreement:

Section I.

The High Contracting Parties declare that, in the text of the Supplementary Agreement of this day's date; the expression "the Convention" shall be taken to mean both the International Convention for the Abolition of Import and Export Prohibitions and Restrictions dated November 8th, 1927, and the Supplementary Agreement of this day's date.

Section II.

Ad Article A.

(a) Cork in the raw state, in respect of which an exception has been allowed for Portugal, does not include scrap cork, or cork in agglomerated form, in shavings, or in sheets.

(b) Although the exceptions set out in Article A, like those appearing in the Annex to Article 6 of the Convention, have been allowed on the condition that the countries benefiting thereby shall sign the present Supplementary Agreement on the day of the general signature, it has appeared equitable to grant an extension of time up to August 31st, 1928, inclusive, to Bulgaria, Portugal and the United States of America.

(c) As regards the exception of hop shoots which has been agreed to in favour of Czechoslovakia under paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the Convention, the High Contracting Parties declare that their consent has been given in return for the written undertaking entered into by the Czechoslovak delegation to allow the free export of this product to all countries which now or in the future guarantee Czechoslovakia by legislative or contractual measures the protection of the appellation of origin of Czechoslovak hops.

Section III.

Ad Article B.

The High Contracting Parties agree to recognise in the case of Italy the application of the provision of the Protocol to the International Agreement relating to the Exportation of Bones [Section I, ad Article I (a)], in the event of the said Agreement coming into force.

Section IV.

Ad Article C.

(a) Owing to the position of the United States in consequence of a short Session of Congress, in the year 1928-29, the High Contracting Parties agree that, if the ratification of the United States has been asked for under paragraph 3 of Article C and has not been deposited by September 30th, 1929, the Convention shall come into force on January 1st, 1930, provided that all the other countries on which the entry into force of the Convention depends and the total number of which would in this case be reduced to seventeen shall have notified the Secretary-General of the League of Nations of their ratifications or accessions before September 30th, 1929, and provided no objection is raised before November 15th, 1929, by any of the countries which, at the time of the deposit of their ratification or accession, made the entry into force of the Convention, in so far as they were concerned conditional upon the ratification or accession of the United States. If any objection is raised, the last paragraph of Article 17 of the Convention shall apply.

(b) The High Contracting Parties, declare that, in drawing up the list of countries which appears in Article C, they have been chiefly guided by the interdependence of certain interests emphasised in the course of the proceedings of the Conference.

They have thought it unnecessary to mention countries the inclusion of which would be justified only by the importance of economic interests or considerations of geographical situation.

If they, have not mentioned certain countries, it is because those countries at present impose no prohibitions of any importance. The High Contracting Parties think they can rely upon their ratification or adhesion.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol.

DONE at Geneva on the eleventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, certified true copies shall be forwarded to all the Members of the League of Nations and to all the non-Member States represented at the Conference.

GERMANY

DR. ERNST TRENDELENBURG

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

HUGH R. WILSON

AUSTRIA

DR. RICHARD SCHÜLLER

BELGIUM

J. BRUNET

GREAT BRITAIN

AND NORTHERN IRELAND

and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate Members of the League of Nations.

I declare that my signature does not include any of His Britannic Majesty's Colonies, Protectorates or territories under suzerainty or mandate.

S. J. CHAPMAN

INDIA

H. A. F. LINDSAY

BULGARIA

Subject to the reservations made on signing the Supplementary Agreement.

D. MIKOFF

CHILE

TOMAS RAMIREZ FRIAS

DENMARK

J. CLAN

WILLIAM BORBERG

EGYPT

SADIK E. HENEIN

ESTONIA

A. SCHMIDT

FINLAND

RUDOLF HOLSTI
GUNNAR KIHLMAN

FRANCE

Subject to the reservations made on signing the Supplementary Agreement.

D. SERRUYS

HUNGARY

NICKL

ITALY

A. DI NOLA
P. TROISE

JAPAN

N. ITO

J. TSUSHIMA

LATVIA

CHARLES DUZMANS

LUXEMBURG

ALBERT CALMES

NORWAY

GUNNAR JAHN

NETHERLANDS

POSTHUMA
F. M. WIBAUT
S. DE GRAAFF

POLAND

FRANCOIS DOLEZAL

PORTUGAL

A. D'OLIVEIRA

F. DE CALHEIROS E MENEZES

ROUMANIA

ANTONIADE
D. T. GHEORGHIU
CESAR POPESCO

KINGDOM OF THE SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES

CONST. FOTITCH
GEORGES CURCIN

SIAM

CHAROON

SWEDEN

EINAR MODIG

SWITZERLAND

W. STUCKI

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

IBL

TURKEY

Subject to reservation as regards Article B.

HASSAN

Certified true copy.

For the Secretary-General:

J. A. BUERO m. p.

Legal Adviser of the Secretariat.