Chilean Rice

• Jurisdiction: Cuba
• Date: 17 October 1946
• Docket Number: Case No. 90
• Court: Supreme Court (Cuba)

Supreme Court of Cuba

Case No. 90

In the Matter of Chilean Rice

Treaties — Most-Favoured-Nation Clause — Interpretation of.

See In the Matter of Chilean Rice, decided by the Supreme Court of Cuba October 17, 1946. In that case it was held that the Director-General of Customs need not apply to rice proceeding from Chile the most-favoured-nation rates prescribed in the Commercial Convention with France of December 18, 1929. It was true that Articles 6 and 12 of the Chilean-Cuban Commercial Convention of March 13, 1937, provided for such rates for products which had been the subject of interchange between Chile and Cuba, but rice had not been the subject of commercial interchange between the two countries when the Convention with France was signed.1

¹ See McNair, The Law of Treaties (1938), p. 285; Hackworth, Digest of International Law (1943), vol. 5, p. 269. Cf. Florida Avocado Growers' Exchange v. United States (1934), 71 Fed. 2d. 309; Burke, Ltd. v. United States (1939), 26 Ct. Cust...