BRITAIN AND FRANCE
COMMERCIAL' RELATIONS
MODUS, VIVENDI REACHED
'(British Official Wireless.) (Eeceived May, 10, 11 a.m.)
EUGBY, May 9,
The denunciation of the AngloFrench Conventions of Commerce and Navigation of 1826 and 1882, of which the French Government gave notice on February 11, ' will take effect as from May 12. Negotiations. for the conclusion of a new treaty have been begun. In tho meantime, as a ' provisional modus vivendi pending the conclusion of this treaty, it has been agreed that the 1882 convention shall be continued in force, subject to a fortnight's notice1 of denunciation by either side, with the exception, of Articles 7, 8, and 9 relating to navigation, which will lapse on May 12, and on the understanding that neither country will invoke the provisions of the convention in a matter of quantitative restrictions on the importation of goods from one country into the other. ■•.'.'■■■
As regards shipping questions it should be noted that both countries are; parties to the Maritime Ports Coavention, signed at Geneva in 1923.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 11
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