by the Government of the United States of America and begs to
suggest that the latter be these articles:
  "Article - The Government of the United States of America and
the Government of the United Mexican States shall give all facilities
in their power to achieve the free transit across their respective ter-
ritories of articles the produce, manufacture or growth of the other
country which are consigned to third countries.
  "Article - As respects articles the growth, produce or manufacture
of the United States of America or of the United Mexican States, in-
cluded and described on Schedules I and II respectively, on which,
upon their importation into one country from the other, ad valorem
import duties or duties based on value or in any way governed thereby,
are imposed or might be imposed, it is understood and agreed that the
bases and methods for determining the value at which the duty and the
conversion of currencies are applied shall not be less favorable to the
importers than the bases and methods established by the laws and
regulations of the United States of America and of the United
Mexican States respectively, in force on the day of the signing of
this Treaty."
                                V
  After studying the schedule of Mexican articles proposed by the
Department of State, the Government of Mexico believes that those
specified in Appendix 3 28 of this Memorandum should be excluded,
since it must reserve the liberty of changing the tariffs thereon, with
a view to the needs of the national industry.
                               VI
  The Government of Mexico wishes to point out that, in examining
the schedule of American articles which was submitted to it by the
Department of State, it has interpreted the numbers of the items
included thereon as being those which must be taken into considera-
tion for the negotiations and that, in cases where the wording of the
item on the schedule does not concur with wording of the official tariff,
it is to be understood that the negotiations will embrace the whole
item and not only part thereof.
  Furthermore, the Government of Mexico would like to have ac-
cepted an elastic interpretation of some items, which list certain
articles in a limited way, in order that it might be able to include
within them other similar articles which are not expressly mentioned
in the said items.
                               VII
  Mexico desires an increase in the quota at present in force for the
importation into the United States of certain products which have a
preponderant place in Mexico's economy and which will be discussed
in detail in the course of the negotiations. Among such products
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