IV. Interest of the United States in the renewal of the international agreement of January 5, 1937, to regulate the production and export of tin ⁶⁶

^66. For previous correspondence regarding the regulation of tin production and export, see Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. ii, pp. 288 ff. The United States was not a party to the 1937 agreement which was signed on behalf of the tin-producing states: Belgian Congo, Bolivia, French Indochina, Malay States, Netherlands East Indies, Nigeria, and Siam; for text of the agreement, see British Cmd. 5879; Papers Relating to the International Tin Control Scheme, p. 3.