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Volume #26 - 234.
CHAPTER IV RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
PART 2 ECONOMIC ISSUES
SECTION B UNITED STATES RESTRICTIONS ON PETROLEUM IMPORTS
234.	DEA/14405-C-8-1-40
Memorandum from Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs to Secretary of State for External Affairs
CONFIDENTIAL	Ottawa, February 16th, 1959
UNITED STATES OIL RESTRICTIONS⁵²⁰
The United States Cabinet Committee on Oil now appears to be contemplating recommending a system of mandatory restrictions on imports to replace the present voluntary programme which is supposed to end February 28. It has seemed to our Embassy in Washington and to the officials of Finance, Trade and Commerce and of this Department that it would be desirable to make clear to the United States our concern about placing mandatory restrictions on our oil exports. There have been a few hints that the restrictions being planned might be relatively generous to Canada - although, of course, the existence of any restrictions is a serious brake on oil exploration and development in Canada. In these circumstances, a fairly formal note, setting our views for the record, seemed indicated. Attached is a draft telegram to Washington instructing them to deliver a note, as set out in the telegram.? Mr. Churchill has approved this note, and it has been cleared with the Depart-ment of Finance, who felt that Mr. Fleming need not see the actual text. If you approve, please initial the telegram.⁵²¹ N.A. R[OBERTSON] ⁵²⁰Voir aussi le document 233./See also Document 233. ⁵²¹Pour le texte de la note remise au département d'État le 19 février 1959, voir Canada, Chambre des Communes, Débats, 1959, volume II, p. 1665. For the text of the note delivered to the State Department on February 19, 1959, see Canada, House of Commons, Debates, 1959, Volume II, p. 1591.
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