Office of the Historian

832.24/2446

Proposal by the Brazilian Ministry for Foreign Affairs for a Simplification of Export Controls74

[Translation]
[Rio de Janeiro, October 8, 1943.]

In view of the increasing availability of shipping space, the purpose of this memorandum is to establish a procedure to facilitate the execution of the Decentralization Plan for the control of imports into Brazil from the United States of America, or via the United States, approved by an exchange of notes No. 1690 of April 20, 1943, from the American Embassy, and EC/169/832.1 (42) (22), of May 7, 1943, from the Foreign Office,72 which Plan remains ratified in all of its terms not altered by the following provisions:

1.
The importation of products essential to Brazil and subject to estimate of supply or quotas in the United States of America will continue to require (Preference Request) “Recommendations”.
2.
The importation of “non-essential” products subject to estimates of supply or quotas will also continue to require “Recommendations”.
3.
The importation of essential products not subject to estimates of supply or quotas will not require “Recommendations”, but will be subject to the following conditions:
a)
Shipments will be made within the quotas established by the monthly shipping programs, and shipping space which becomes available will be used, as far as possible, in the proportions established by these quotas;
b)
The carrying out of this procedure, which concerns particularly Brazilian economy, will be guided in the United States of America by the Commercial Counselor of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, who will act as representative of the Carteira in such matters, in accordance with the provisions of item 7 of the memorandum76 which accompanied the above mentioned notes exchanged between the American Embassy and the Foreign Office.
c)
The Carteira will control, a posteriori, the execution of this plan, by ships’ manifests which will be immediately and directly forwarded to it.
4.
The importation of “non-essential” products not subject to estimates of supply or quotas will also not require “Recommendations”.
5.
“Non-essential” products, whether or not subject to estimates of supply or quotas, may only be shipped when there is no cargo of essential products to be transported, the latter to be given full priority.
6.
The expectation of increasing shipping space, which justifies the accepted alterations, also makes it advisable to establish a procedure which will assure the complete utilization of space on ships voyaging from Brazil to the United States of America, observing for such shipments, however, the priorities established by “General Import Order M–63”.77
7.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Brazilian Consulates in the United States of America and the Commercial Counselor of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, will take steps looking toward the satisfactory execution of the provisions contained in items 1 to 5 of this understanding.

(Signed)
A. de Magalhaens

Chiefs, Economic and Commercial Division
  1. Presented by the Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Aranha) to the Ambassador in Brazil under cover of note of October 8 (not printed) as text of proposed supplementary agreement; copies transmitted to the Department by the Ambassador in his despatch No. 13102, October 15; received October 23.↩
  2. Neither printed.↩
  3. Not printed.↩
  4. War Production Board order of January 18, 1943: see 8 Federal Register 850.↩