Letter of Transmittal

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 28, 1974.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit herewith, for Senate advice and consent to ratification, the Convention between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Romania with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on December 4, 1973.

The Convention was signed during the visit to the United States of the Romanian President, Nicolae Ceausescu. It is evidence of the continued improvement and expansion of United States-Romanian relations.

The primary purpose of this Convention is to promote economic and cultural relations between the two countries by removing many tax barriers. The convention follows generally the form and content of conventions recently concluded between this government and Western European countries.

I hope that the Senate will act favorably on this Convention at an early date.

                                         RICHARD NIXON.

CONSIDERING THAT:

The Convention between the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Romania with Respect to Taxes on Income was signed at Washington on December 4, 1973, the text of which Convention, in the English and Romanian languages, is hereto annexed;

The Senate of the United States of America by its resolution of November 18, 1975, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, gave its advice and consent to ratification of the Convention;

The Convention was ratified by the President of the United States of America on December 15, 1975, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, and was ratified on the part of the Socialist Republic of Romania on December 23, 1974;

It is provided in Article 27 of the Convention that the Convention shall enter into force one month after the date of the exchange of instruments of ratification, with effectiveness with respect to income of calendar years or taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 1974;

The instruments of ratification of the Convention were exchanged at Bucharest on January 26, 1976, and accordingly the Convention enters into force on February 26, 1976, effective January 1, 1974;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States of America, proclaim and make public the Convention, to the end that it shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith on and after February 26, 1976, by the United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have signed this proclamation and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventy-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundredth.

   By the President:   
                                                 GERALD R. FORD

      HENRY A. KISSINGER 
                 Secretary of State

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