811.20(D)Regulations/892
The Secretary of State to the Japanese Chargé (Morishima)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of Japan and refers to the memoranda of November 30 and December 4, 1940, of the Japanese Embassy,35 in regard to the requirement that licenses be obtained for the export of certain machine tools which collectors of customs had been previously instructed might be exported without a license.
The Secretary of State, in reply, invites attention to the fourth paragraph of his note of December 9, 1940, in which he pointed out that this instruction to collectors of customs contained the stipulation that licenses would not be required for the export of these types of tools “until further notice”. On November 25 the Department advised collectors of customs that on and after December 10, 1940, all of these types of tools would be subjected to the licensing requirement. Prior to November 25, however, the Department, pursuant to the desires of the Administrator of Export Control with whom rests full authority in matters of this sort, had had occasion to inform both collectors of customs and manufacturers that licenses would be required in certain individual cases for the export of certain specific tools of the types previously exempted, which tools are pressingly needed in the defense program of the United States. These specific instructions, which amended the instructions of July 27, 1940 and, in contradistinction to the instructions of November 25, took effect immediately, account for the course pursued in the individual cases referred to in the Embassy’s memoranda of November 30 and December 4, 1940.
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