CFM Files: Lot M–88: Box 118: File—TRI Documents
Paper Agreed Upon by the London Conference on Germany1
TRI/22 (Final)
Trizonal Export/Import Policy
It is agreed that the external trade of the French Zone shall, with-out prejudice to the observance of existing agreements and contracts to which the French Zone or the Combined Zone are party, be conducted through J.E.I.A., in accordance with the general rules of the J.E.I.A. Charter, with effect from the 1st August next. The Military Government of the French Zone will be associated with the management of the J.E.I.A., with its Board of Directors and, for this purpose only, the Bipartite Board, in such a way as may be agreed between the three Military Governors before that date.
Discussions shall be opened forthwith among the three Governments with a view to reaching agreement on the financial and economic issues of French participation in J.E.I.A.
United Kingdom reservation
The United Kingdom Delegation accepted the foregoing subject to the understanding that it would not be required to assume obligations to provide capital or to convert currencies additional to those which His Majesty’s Government had accepted in the revised Fusion Agreement.
French reservation
Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted as committing the French Government to assume an obligation to make any contribution in national or foreign currencies from its own resources to J.E.I.A.
[Page 290]United States reservation
Nothing in this Agreement is to be interpreted as adding to the share of the United States Government in the cost of maintaining the occupation of Germany.