Treaties — Type of executive agreements — Effect of executive agreements — Validity — Whether agreements are binding under international law without the consent of the legislature — Loan agreement between the Philippines and the United States — Approval of the loan by the Head of State but no ratification by the Senate — The law of the Philippines Despite numerous attempts by the Philippine Government to settle it, they remain unresolved and outstanding to date. They were presented recently by the Philippine Economic Mission to the United States, which negotiated the revision of the trade agreement between the two countries, but as in the past, the reaction of the United States government has been negative. Aide-memoire of His Excellency Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, recently presented to U.S. Secretary of State© John Foster Dulles. It was decided that the communiqué could not be issued that evening©. At this point, President Garcia left for his official reception (it was 5:30 a.m..m. at the time) and the discussion between Governor Cuaderno and the Americans present continued. Mr. Waugh also left. – No HTML tags are allowed – Website URLs are only displayed as text – Lines and paragraphs are automatically wrapped – Attachments, images, or spreadsheets are not allowed View all Google Scholar citations for this article. Do you have conflicting interests? * Conflict of Interest Help Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01. January 2021 President Garcia asked if a five-year payment plan for commodities was not possible.
M. Waugh replied that there was no such plan for the Export-Import Bank to finance cotton imports over a one-year period, but that it could not finance other commodities to be repaid over a five-year period. At any time in the last 36 months, please list all costs and grants of organizations whose interest may be affected by the publication of the response. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would like to know in relation to the submitted work. This applies to all authors of the play, their spouses or partners. Waugh said the Export-Import Bank is ready to provide the Philippines with a new line of credit for project loans in the public and private sectors totaling $75 million. This new amount would replace the remaining $44.5 million of the existing line of credit, which expires on June 30. The $75 million would include a $10 million loan to Manila Electric Company and $15 million to bank lines to finance industrial development in the Philippines. Of the latter, about $10 million would be borrowed through the Central Bank of the Philippines and $5 million through private banks.
Governor Cuaderno`s discussion can be better summed up by numerous attempts to increase the total number of U.S. aids listed in the statement©. He raised many of the issues that had already been discussed. During the talks, he said the central bank should ban further dollar transfers unless the statement© contains a clear statement about the financing of the steel plant. Lord. Dillon responded to Governor Cuaderno by pointing out that $75 million from the Export-Import Bank plus the steel plant`s export-import counterpart as an additional project, if recovered by that organization, plus $50 million from DLF, would be the limit of availability in the United States over the next year. President Garcia asked whether it would be possible for the United States to increase the $50 million ceiling provisionally set by the Development Loan Fund for project loans to the Philippines. Mr. Dillon replied that the DLF had a big problem because he did not know how much money Congress would provide for the coming year. He pointed out that when the maximum of $625 million is reached, the DLF will face demands from countries around the world amounting to more than $3 billion. Under these circumstances, the DLF, which faces problems arising from the Cold War around the world, could not go beyond $50 million for the Philippines.
If Congress did not approve the $625 million requested, the $50 million discussed for the Philippines would have to be reconsidered. Mr Cuaderno referred to a 1953 loan from the Export-Import Bank which financed raw materials in Brazil. Mr. Waugh replied that it was a bad loan and could not be repeated. PHILIPPINES FINANCIAL CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES As filed by the Philippine Economic Mission, these claims are as follows: Ambassador Bohlen said he was very surprised that the Filipinos expected a $300 million loan. He himself had told President Garcia and all the Filipinos present no less than five times that such a figure would be impossible for the United States. In addition, at the time of the SEATO meeting, the Minister had told President Garcia that it would be very difficult to find money for economic aid in the current circumstances.3 Ambassador Bohlen understood that the Philippines had a three-year programme of $300 million and therefore could not understand the Philippine reaction of disappointment at the collection of $125 million for immediate needs. Governor Cuaderno then repeated all the previous arguments, which had already been discussed in depth on several occasions. Minister Robertson stressed that the DLF is addressed to the whole world and must be divided on this basis. He was surprised that President Garcia was so disappointed.
He explained that the United States believes that providing $125 million to the Philippine development program is a great success. President Garcia protested that withholding loans until a climate of economic stability is created would put the cart before the horse, since the Philippines had planned to use U.S. loans to create economic stability. Ambassador Bohlen stated that the United States did not intend to make loans conditional on the creation of financial stability [page 887]. The reason for Mr. Dillon`s proposal was that we would welcome the talks between the Philippines and the IMF, especially if they clarified the reasons for the Philippines` recent difficulties with its foreign exchange reserves. Mr. Dillon then explained the position of the Development Loan Fund (DLF). The DLF cannot make final commitments until Congress has allocated funds for the coming fiscal year. The DLF has requested $625 million from Congress, but since this has not yet been approved, the DLF must avoid making firm commitments for funds not yet approved.
However, if Congress provides additional funding roughly equal to this amount, the DLF will be willing to consider specific projects in the Philippines and not exceed a $50 million cap [page 883]. .