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ARGENTINA
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS RESPECTING A TRADE AGREEMENT
        BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ARGENTINA'
611.3531/408a
  The Acting Secretary of State to the AmXba8sador in Argentina
                           (Weddell)
No. 510                           WASHINGTON, December 9, 1936.
  SIR: There has recently been created a Country Committee on
Argentina and Uruguay to study American trade with those two
countries and to formulate specific proposals which might be con-
sidered in the event that it should be decided to negotiate trade agree-
ments with those countries. In formulating such proposals in con-
nection with a possible trade agreement with Argentina, it is neces-
sary to consider not only the specific tariff concessions which would
be granted reciprocally by the two countries, but also the subject mat-
ter and phraseology of the general provisions which would form the
body of the agreement. In formulating these general provisions, the
Department desires to benefit by the experience and advice of its
representatives in Buenos Aires, in order that all aspects of the matter
may receive thorough consideration. You are therefore instructed,
in collaboration with the Consul General and the Commercial Attache,
to study the question of the general provisions which it would be desir-
able to insert in a possible trade agreement with Argentina, and to
submit your specific recommendations in the premises.
  In order to facilitate this work, there are enclosed three copies of
some standardized general provisions2 which have been prepared in
the Department for consideration in connection with trade agreements
which may be negotiated in the future and for possible inclusion
therein. The various articles contained in these general provisions
are purely tentative in their nature and may be appropriately modi-
fied in accordance with the needs of any particular agreement. In
replying to this instruction, you may find it convenient to take these
standard general provisions as a basis, and indicate such deletions
therefrom or additions and amendments thereto as you may consider
desirable. It is unlikely, for example, that the article on exchange
1Continued from Foreign Relations, 1935, vol. iv, pp. 266-268.
'Ibid., 1935, vol. I, p. 536.
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