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Letter No. 3
THE
OF
LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SIGNATORY ON QUESTION OF THE EXTENSION TO OTHER COLONIAL DEPENDENCIES OF PREFERENCES PRIMARILY
INTEREST TO CEYLON.
London,
March 20, 1939.
SIR,
With reference to Article 13 of the Trade Agreement signed this day, I have the honour to inform you that the Government of India have taken note of the statement of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in the course of the recent discussions that, in agreeing that the preferences included in Schedule VI to the Agreement are principally of interest to Ceylon, they are nevertheless anxious that the claims of other Colonial dependencies to receive any of these preferences should be sympathetically considered by the Government of India if the proposed negotiations between that Govern- ment and the Government of Ceylon do not result in the extension of such preferences to those dependencies for the duration of the Agreement concluded this day. I am authorised to state that the Government of India will give sympathetic consideration to any requests which His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom may make in regard to such preferences on behalf of 'Colonial dependencies other than Ceylon,
I have, etc.,
FIROZ KHAN NOON.
THE RIGHT HON. OLIVER STANLEY, M.C., M.P.,
President of the Board of Trade.
(C33538) 5,000 3/39