Convention to suppress the slave trade and slavery. Concluded at Geneva September 25, 1926; entered into force for the United States March 21, 1929. 46 Stat. 2183; TS 778; IV Trenwith 5022; 60 LNTS 253. States which have become parties: Afghanistan Monaco Netherlands, including Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curacao New Zealand * Parties to the revising convention of ** Japan renounced its rights and interests under this convention by art. 8(b) of the Peace Treaty of Sept. 8, 1951 (3 UST 3176; TIAS 2490). *** Subject to an understanding. *With reservations. Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Panama Ecuador El Salvador SUGAR Venezuela International sugar agreement. Done at London under date of October 1, 1953; entered into force for the United States May 5, 1954. 6 UST 203; TIAS 3177. States which have become parties: Australia Belgium China* Cuba* Czechoslovakia* Canada Dominican Republic Germany (Fed. Rep.) Lebanon Mexico Netherlands* Philippines Poland* Portugal* Union of South Africa Union of Soviet Socialist Republics* United Kingdom* United States*** Territorial application: United Kingdom for: Aden (colony and protectorate), Bahamas, Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Brunei, Cyprus, Falkland Islands (colony and dependencies), Fiji, Gambia (colony and protectorate), Gibraltar, Gold Coast (Colony, Ashanti, Northern Territories, Togoland under U.K. trusteeship), Jamaica (including Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Cayman Islands), Leeward Islands (Antigua, Montserrat, St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla, Virgin Islands), Mauritius, Nigeria (colony, protectorate, Cameroons under U.K. trusteeship), St. Helena (including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha), Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone (colony and protectorate), Trinidad and Tobago, Western Pacific High Commission Territories (British Solomon Islands protectorate, Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony, Central and Southern Line Islands), Windward Islands (Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent), Zanzibar protectorate. 224 TELECOMMUNICATIONS Convention for protection of submarine cables*, signed at Paris March 14, 1884; Declaration respecting the interpretation of Articles II and IV, signed at Paris December 1, 1886; Final Protocol of agreement fixing May 1, 1888 as the date of effect of the convention, signed at Paris July 7, 1887; entered into force for the United States May 1, 1888. 24 Stat. 989; 25 Stat. 1424; TS 380, 380-2, 380-3; II Malloy 1949. States which have become parties: Argentina Netherlands, including Poland, including Free Rumania Spain Sweden Tunis France Brazil Canada ** Chile Inter-American radio agreement, annex, appendices, declaration, resolutions and recommendations. Done at Washington July 9, 1949; entered into force for the United States April 13, 1952. 3 UST 3064; TIAS 2489; 168 UNTS 143. States which have become parties: Costa Rica Cuba** Mexico** Nicaragua Canada *** Chile*** Mexico Panama Peru Dominican Republic*** United States*** Haiti Inter-American radiocommunications convention and annexes. Signed at Habana December 13, 1937; enter- 53 Stat. 1576; TS 938. * Applicable to all territories of the High Contracting Parties except those of the United Kingdom specified in the additional article. ** With reservations. *** Replaced, as between contracting parties, by the agreement signed January 26, 1940 (55 Stat. 1482; EAS 231). **** In force provisionally. ***** Denouncement deposited August 13, 1956 (effective one year after date of receipt). 2. International telecommunication convention and five annexes, radio regulations with appendices, and final protocol to the convention.1 Signed at Atlantic City October 2, 1947; entered into force for the United States January 1, 1949. 63 Stat. (2) 1399; TIAS 1901. 3. Telegraph regulations (Paris revision, 1949) annexed to the telecommunication convention (Atlantic City, 1947), and final protocol. Signed at Paris August 5, 1949; entered into force for the United States September 26, 1950. 2 UST 17; TIAS 2175. |