| AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE EXCHANGE OF
GOODS BETWEEN THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC AND INDIA New Delhi,
29 March 1949 The Government of the Czechoslovak Republic and the Government of India being equally desirous of encouraging direct commercial relations
between the two countries have agreed as follows: Article 1 Wherever necessary, on application duly made in accordance with laws and regulations of either Contracting Party governing the making
of applications for and the grant of import and export licences, licences for goods enumerated in Schedules A and B annexed to this
Agreement shall be granted in conformity with such laws and regulations up to the yearly quantity or value therein mentioned. Article 2 The yearly quantity or value of any of the items mentioned in Schedules A and B can be diminished or increased or fresh items added
by mutual agreement between the two Contracting Parties only. Article 3 Goods covered by Schedules C and D represent estimates made in good faith, by the Contracting Parties, of the probable course of trade
in respect of the items mentioned therein, during the period covered by this Agreement. The Contracting Parties further agree to
afford each other every facility, consistent with their overall economic and financial policies, to ensure that trade in these commodities
does achieve the limits specified. The Contracting Parties agree to review the progress of trade in the items covered by these Schedules
in the second half of June 1949 in order to determine in the light of such review and other relevant circumstances then prevailing
the extent to which any revision of these Schedules is necessary for the unexpired portion of this Agreement. Article 4 On request by the Government of India, the Czechoslovak Government agree to render all possible assistance to build up new and improve
existing Indian industries specified in Schedule E appended to this Agreement. Contracts for this purpose may be made between the
Government of India, Provincial Government, or private parties on the one side and Czechoslovak enterprises on the other. These contracts
may provide inter alia for projects drawings, transfer of patent rights and lending of expert personnel. In respect of the lending
of expert personnel, it is understood that the contracts for lending will be made between the party in India and the Czechoslovak
enterprise concerned and the contract for employment will be made between the party in India and the Czechoslovak individual so lent.
The Czechoslovak Government will give all possible assistance to secure available expert personnel. Article 5 This Agreement shall, subject to ratification as provided for in Article 6, remain in force till the 31st December, 1949 and thereafter
for further successive periods as may be mutually agreed upon before the expiry of this Agreement. Article 6 This Agreement shall
be subject to ratification and shall come into force on the date when instruments of ratification are exchanged, which shall be as
soon as possible. Any arrangements entered into between the Contracting Parties in anticipation of ratification shall be discharged
wherever possible as near as may be in the terms of this Agreement or if for any reason ratification is withheld by either of the
Contracting Parties, on principles of equity and reciprociy. DONE and SIGNED in duplicate, in English, either copy being equally authentic, in New Delhi on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of March,
1949. (Sd.) A.F. BIHELLER For the Czechoslovak Govt. (Sd.) L. PLOSKAL. Witness 29th March 1949 Sd.) C.C. DESAI. For the Government of India (Sd.) B.P. ADARKAR Witness 29th March 1949
SCHEDULE A EXPORTS FROM INDIA | 1. | Raw Jute | 2,000 tons. | | 2. | Groundnut Kernels | 4,000 tons. | | 3. | Linseed | 2,000 tons. | | 4. | Manganese ore (Low grade) (High grade) | 5,000 tons from South India. 7,500 tons. | | 5. | Sillimanite (Kyanite) | 500 tons. | | 6. | Cotton yarn waste | 2,000 tons. | | 7. | Dry salted goat skins-
(a) Muzaffarpore
(b) Best Patna
(c) Malabar goat skins | 9,00,000 pieces | SCHEDULE B EXPORTS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA | £ Sterling | | 1 | Coaltar dyes | 50,000 | | 2 | Saccharine | 37,000 | | 3 | Accessories for textile industry (Shuttles, bobbins, dobby lags with accessories) | 30,000
(of which bobbins should not exceed £5,000) | | 4 | Printing paper | 270,000 | | 5 | Chains of link thickness 3/8 inch and above | 16,000 | | 6 | Special Steel (Tool steel)
(Construction steel) | 34,500 | | 7 | Boilers, complete with piping | 311,000 | | 8 | Conveyors, pully blocks, etc. | 7,250 | | 9 | Prime movers, Diesel engines and compressors | 351,250 | | 10 | Pumps, if power driven | 500 | | 11 | Equipment and machines for ceramic industry, machines for building construction | 7,500 | | 12 | Equipment and machines for chemical industries
(including oil expellors) | 59,700 | | 13 | Equipment and machines for sugar mills | 210,300 | | 14 | Equipment and machiens for food industries, flour mills, cold storages and food preserving | 3,750 | | 15 | Machine tools, tools and gauges for metal working | 150,000 | | 16 | Wood working machinery and tools | 20,000 | | 17 | Textile mechines | 25,000 | | 18 | Industrial Sewing machines and shoemakers machinery | 25,500 | | 19 | Machines for tobacco industry | 15,000 | | 20 | Agricultural machines and farmer pumps (only if power driven) | 42,500 | | 21 | Tractors and implements (specifications to be apprved by the Indian Ministries concerned) | 290,000 | | 22 | Electric motors over 30 H.P | 5,000 | | 23 | Electricity meters | 35,000 | | 24 | Electric welding machines, electric hand tools and other appliances. electric testing instruments and machines fo laboratories | 13,250 | | 25 | Machines and tools for dental surgery, respirating machines | 1,000 | | 26 | Photographic and motion picture cameras, machines and accessories | 20,000 | | 27 | Other fine machanics, water gauges | 35,500 | | 28 | Motor cycle chains | 500 | | 29 | Steel castings and forgings | 5,800 | | 30 | Refrigerating machinery and compressors | 7,500 | | 31 | Lithopone | 7,500 | | 32 | Titanium oxide | 2,400 | | 33 | Rongalite | 3,500 | | 34 | Cresylic acid | 11,500 | | 35 | Moulding powder (Cellulose acetate, Polysterene powder only) | 6,000 | | 36 | Potassium Ferrocyanide | 3,250 | | 37 | Newsprint (600 tons) | | SCHEDULE C EXPORTS FROM INDIA | | | Quantity | £Sterling | | 1 | Pepper | | 15,000 | | 2 | Shellac | 30 tons | | | 3 | Coir fibre | | 500 | | 4 | Palmyra fibre | | 12,500 | | 5 | Sodium bichromate | | 30,000 | | 6 | Linga shells, Bombay and Aden shells | | 5,000 | | 7 | Mica | | 25,000 | | 8 | Talc | 50 tons | | | 9 | Groundnut oil | 1,800 tons | | | 10 | Linseed oil | 500 tons | | | 11 | Half-tanned Madras-
(a) Goatskins
(b) E.I. Tanned Kips
(c) F.I. Tanned Skins | .
100,000 Pieces
150,000 Pieces
150,000 Pieces | | | 12 | Tea, black | 300,000 lbs. | | SCHEDULE D EXPORTS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA | 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. | Mineral waters Thermal mud Carlsbad spring salt Feather trimmings Tyres (only of types as per specifications
supplied. India would have off the road and tractor types only)
Technical rubber products of specified types only Bentwood furniture Shoe makers' requisites Straw board, Paste board, Mill board & Card Board Porcelain for technical use Utility china Utility ceramics Safety glass Technical and laboratory glass Lighting glass (no bulbs) Wrapping glass Table glass Glass bangles Wireless reception instruments Sport fire arms and ammution Fniit Presses (power driven) Hats and Fezes Lead pencils, copying and coloured pencils Torch Light eases and flashlight cases Corkware/Premed Cork Iron wire nettinge | . 3,000 . 1,000 25,000 10,000 15,000 2,500 10,000 160 6,500 7,000 10,000 5,000 10,000 2,500 2,500 5,000 10,000 2,25,000 1,000 2,000 500 10,000 1,500 5,000 | SCHEDULE E
- 1. Utilization of coal.
- 2. Production of rnachine tools.
- 3. Diesel motor factory.
- 4. Tractor factory.
- 5. Aero motors.
- 6. Geared wheels.
- 7. Locomotives.
- 8. All metal locomotive tenders.
- 9. Coaltar dyes factory.
- 10. Ceramics.
- 11. Chemicaln and drugs.
- 12. Distillery.
- 13. Electrical.
PROTOCOL of terms and conditions annexed to the Trade Agreement signed at New Delhi on the twenty-ninth March, 1949, between the Government
of India and the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic Certain trade negotiations having taken place in New Delhi between delegations of the Government of India and the Government of the
Czechoslovak Republic, a Trade Agreement, subject to ratification by the two Governments, has been arrived at. This protocol will
be appended to the Trade Agreement on the date of signature of the Agreement and shall be taken as forming part of the Agreement
without any necessity for further ratification of this protocol. The Government of India and of the Czechoslovak Republic acting in their capacity of Contracting Parties to the Trade Agreement between
the Government of India and the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic. Being desirous of laying down terms and conditions under which the Trade Agreement and particularly the Schedules annexed thereto
shall be brought into effect. Hereby agree as follows:— 1.The exchange of instruments of ratification shall take place as soon as Dossible in New Delhi or in Prague as may be mutually convenient
or agreed upon. 2. The clauses of the Trade Agreement shall be provisionally applied as provided in Article 6 as from the 29th March, 1949. 3. Regarding the commodities mentioned in Schedule 'A' the licences for export will be granted by the Government of India in such
a manner as to ensure that exports take place in reasonable instalments during the currency of the Agreement provided applications
for such licences are forthcoming. 4. (i) As regards Coal Tar Dyes, Saccharine, Printing Paper, Accessories for textile industry, Machine tools and Steel castings and
forgings, mentioned in Schedule 'B' Czechoslovakia shall make every endeavour to ensure that these goods in the quantities specified
are actually delivered to India during the year 1949. Czechoslovakia further undertakes to supply additional machine tools to the
value of £ 100,000 forgings and castings to the value of £ 6,000 and 500 tons of special steel and boilers to the value
of £ 20,000 within twelve months from the date of placing of orders. (ii) Regarding Agricultural machines, Pumps, Farmers' Pumps, Tractors and implements, it is understood by both the Contracing Parties
that these should be of power driven types only. Moreover the specifications of the Agricultural machines, Tractors and Implements
will have to be approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and any other Ministry concerned of the Government of India before import
licences are actually issued by that Government. 5. In view of the inland situation of Czechoslovakia, it is agreed that the term shipment when applied to the issue of import licences
by India for import from Czechoslovakia shall be deemed to include actual despatch by Railway or River-boat after clearing for export
in through transit to India. 6. The Government of the Czechoslovak Republic will provide all facilities that it can reasonably accord to enable Indian ships to
carry as large a proportion as possible of the goods to be exchanged under the Trade Agreement. DONE and SIGNED in duplicate, in English, either copy being equally authentic, in New Delhi on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of March
1949. (Sd. A.F. BIHELLERT For the Czechoslovak Government. (Sd., L. PLOSKAL. Witness 29th March, 1949 . (Sd.) C.C. DESAI. For the Government of India. (Sd.) B.P. ADARKAR. Witness 29th March, 1949.
AGREED MINUTES OF MEETINGS BETWEEN THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC 1. A mixed commission of representatives of the Government of India and the representatives of Czechoslovak Republic met in New Delhi
between the 18th July and the 29th July 1949, to review the progress of trade in the items covered by the Schedules to the Indo-Czechoslovak
Agreement signed on 29th March, 1949 in accordance with pare 2 of Article 3 of the Agreement. 2. The following decisions were reached:— (1) Review of trade for April-May, 1949 .—The review disclosed that the orders placed by importers and received by exporters on both
sides during the months of April and May, 1949, were satisfactory. (2) Revision of the Schedules attached to the Agreemerlt.Representatives of both governments agreed that the present Schedules to
the Agreement should be revised in order to make them more realistic as well as to achieve a balanced trade. (i) The following amended Schedules were agreed to: SCHEDULE 'A' EXPORTS FROM INDIA
|
| S. No |
Commodity |
Quantity or value provided for inoriginal agreement |
Quantity or value as now amended |
Remarks |
| |
|
tons |
tons |
|
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 |
Raw jute
Groundnut
Kernels
Linseed
Manganese ore
Kyanite
Cotton yarn waste
Dry salted goat skins |
2,000
4,000
2,000
12,500
500
2,000
900,000 pieces |
9,600
4,000
2,000
5,000
500
2,000
900,000 pieces |
|
|
SCHEDULE 'B' EXPORTS FROM CHECHOSLOVAKIA | S.No. | Commodity | Quantity or value as in original Agreement | Quantity or value as now amended | Remarks | | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | | | | £ | £ | | | 1 | Coal tar dyes | 50,000 | 50,000 | Czechoslovakia could supply only sulphur black and Indenthen blue | | 2 | Saccharine | 37,000 | 3,000 | | | 3 | Accessories for textile industry (Shuttles bobbins, dobby lags with accessories) | 30,000 (of which bobbins shoud not exceed £ 5,000) | 30,000 (of which bobbins should not exceed £ 5,000) | | | 4 | Printing paper | 270,000 | 130,000 | This would also include tissue paper | | 5 | Chains excluding wisted chains | 10,000 | 16,000 | | | 6 | Special Steel (Tool stell, construction steel) | 34,500 | 34,500 | | | 7 | Boilers, complete with piping | 311,000 | 311,000 | | | 8 | Conveyors, pully blocks etc. | 7,250 | 7,250 | | | 9 | Prime movers, Diesel engines and compressors | 351,250 | 400,000 | | | 10 | Pumps, if power driven | 500 | Nil | This is included in item 20 | | 11 | Equipment and machines for ceramic industry, machines for building construction | 7,500 | 3,750 | | | 12 | Equipment and machines for chemical industries (including oil expellors) | 59,700 | 59,700 | | | 13 | Equipment and machiens for sugar mills | 219,300 | 219,300 | | | 14 | Equipment and machines for food industries, flour mills, cold storage and food prserving | 3,750 | Nil | | | 15 | Machine tools, tools and gauges for metal working | 150,000 | 150,000 | | | 16 | Wood working machinery and tools | 20,000 | 3,000 | | | 17 | Textile machines | 25,000 | 25,000 | | | 18 | Industrial sewing machiens and shoemakers machinery | 25,500 | 50,500 | | | 19 | Machines for tobacco industry | 15,000 | Nil | | | 20 | Agricultural machines and farmer pumps (only if power driven) including tube-well pumps | 42,500 | 57,500 | | | 21 | Tractors and implements (specifications to be approved by the Indian Ministries concerned). | 260,000 | 260,000 | | | 22 | Electric motors over 300 H.P | 5,000 | 5,000 | | | 23 | Electricity meters | 35,000 | 35,000 | | | 24 | Electric welding machines, electric hand tools and other appliances, electric testing instruments and machines for laboratories.
| 13,250 | 6,000 | | | 25 | Machines and tools for dental surgery, respirating machines | 1,000 | 1,000 | | | 26 | Photographic and motion picture cameras, malchines and accessories | 20,000 | 10,000 | | | 27 | Other fine mechanics, water gauges | 35,500 | 35,500 | | | 28 | Motor cycle chains | 500 | Nil | | | 29 | Steel castings and forgings | 5,800 | 5,800 | | | 30 | Refrigerating machineryand compressors | 7,500 | Nil | | | 31 | Listhopone | 7,500 | 7,500 | | | 32 | Titanium Oxide | 2,400 | 2,400 | | | 33 | Rongalite | 3,500 | 3,500 | | | 34 | Cresylic acid | 11,500 | 11,500 | | | 35 | Moulding powder (Cellulose acetate Polysterene powder only) | 6,000 | Nil | | | 36 | Potassium Ferrocyanide | 3,250 | 3,250 | | | 37 | Newsprint | 600 tons | 600 tons | | SCHEDULE 'C' EXPORT FROM INDIA | S.No | Commodity | Quantity or value
as in original Agreement | Quantity or value
as now amended | Remarks | 1 2 3 4 5 6
. 7 8 9 10 | Paper Shellac Coir fibre Palmyra fibre Sodium bicromate Linga shells, Bombay and Aden shells Mica Talc Groundnut oil Linseed oil | 15,000 30 tons 500 12,500 30,000 5,000
. 25,000 50 tons 1,000 tons 500 tons | 15,000 30 tons 500 12,500 30,000 5,000
. 25,000 50 tons 1,000 tons 500 tons | | | 11 | Half tanned Madras- (a) Goatskins (b) E.I. Tanned Kips (c) E.I. Tanned Skins | Pieces 100,000 150,000 150,000 lbs | Pieces 100,000 150,000 150,000 lbs | | | 12 | Tea black | 300,000 | 300,000 | | SCHEDULE 'D' EXPORTS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA | S.No | Commodity | Quantity or value as in original Agreement | Quantity or value as now amended | Remarks | | 1 | Mineral waters | £ | £ | | | 2 | Thermal mud | 3,000 | 3,000 | | | 3 | Carlsbad spring salt | | | | | 4 | Fether trimmings and marabutrimmings. | 1,000 | Nil | | | 5 | Tyres (only of types as per specifications supplied. India would have off the road and tractor types only) | 25,000 | 25,000 | | | 6 | Technical rubber products of specified types only including V-belts | 10,000 | 10,000 | | | 7 | Bentwood furniture | 15,000 | 10,000 | | | 8 | Shoe-makers' requisites | 2,500 | 2,500 | | | 9 | Straw board, paste-board, mill board and card board | 10,000 | 5,000 | | | 10 | Porcelain for technical use | 160 | 500 | | | 11 | Utility china | 6,500 | 6,500 | | | 12 | Utility ceramics | 7,000 | 7,000 | | | 13 | Safety glass | 10,000 | 10,000 | | | 14 | Technical and laboratory glass | 5,000 | 5,000 | | | 15 | Lighting glass (no bulbs) | 10,000 | 10,000 | | | 16 | Wrapping glass | 2,500 | 2,500 | | | 17 | Table glass | 2,500 | 2,500 | | | 18 | Glass bangles | 5,000 | 5,000 | | | 19 | Wireless reception instruments | 10,000 | 10,000 | | | 20 | Sports, firearms and ammunition | 225,000 | 150,000 | | | 21 | Fruit presses (Power driven) | 1,000 | Nil | | | 22 | Hats and Fezes | 2,000 | 2,000 | | | 23 | Lead pencils, copying and coloured pencils | 500 | 500 | | | 24 | Torch Light cases and flashlight cases | 10,000 | 10,000 | | | 25 | Corkware/Pressed Cork/Crown Corks | 1,500 | 5,000 | | | 26 | Iron wire nettings | 5,000 | 5,000 | | (ii) The following additional items for exports from India and Czechoslovakia were also agreed to:- EXPORTS FROM INDIA | | | Tons | | 1. 2. 3. 4. | Coffee Nux Vomica Senna pods and leaves Misc. commodities including bamboos gums etc. | 100 1/2 5 £20,000 | EXPORTS FROM CHECHOSLOVAKIA | | | £ | | | 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. | Liquid Gold Ultra marine blue Bronze powder Tranning machinery Domestic sewing machines Shoe grindery Chaff cutter knives Alarm clocks and clocks leather belting | 8,000 7,000 3,500 27,000 10,000 30,000 4,000 3,000 5,000 | | | 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. | Motors cars Motor cycles Cycles Bath tubs Padlocks Small fittings | 40,465 21,000 4,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 | - Subject to the decision of the
Government of India on the question
of allowing import of motor cars etc.
from Czechoslovakia for which
applications have been invited under
Commerce Ministry Public Notice
No. 1 (II)-I.T.C./49 dated 1st June
1949 regarding O.G.L. XI
concessions the final figures being
communicated to the Czechoslovak
Embassy. | 3. The Government of India and the Government of Czechoslovak Republic agree that commodities imported by either country from the
other shall not be re-exported to any other country. Signed on behalf of the Governement of India C.C. DESAI,
Secretary to the Government of India,
Ministry of Commerce. Signed on behalf of the Czechoslavak Government A.F. BIHELLER,
Charge d' Affaires for the Czechoslovak Republic New Delhi:
The 2nd August,1949. |
