Law of 1 March 1944 prohibiting the export of unmanufactured mahogany and other precious woods

Corps Législatif d'Haïti • 1944-03-01 • 2 pages

Summary — An export ban on unprocessed mahogany logs and boards and all other precious woods, on the stated ground that the export trade threatened to make scarce a material indispensable to national industry. It is an early Haitian instance of an export restriction used as industrial policy.

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Key Findings

The ban covers unmanufactured mahogany logs and boards and all other precious woods.
Finished goods remain exportable, making this a local-processing requirement.
The stated motive is scarcity of a material indispensable to national industry.
Voted 28 and 29 February 1944 and promulgated 1 March 1944.

Full Description

The law of 1 March 1944, published in Le Moniteur No. 21 of 13 March 1944 under Élie Lescot, voted in the Chamber of Deputies on 28 February and in the Senate on 29 February 1944.

Article 1 prohibits the export of unmanufactured mahogany logs and boards and of all other precious woods. Article 2 repeals contrary provisions, with execution by the secretaries of state for agriculture and labour and for commerce and the national economy. The preamble grounds the ban in the threat that the export trade in Haitian precious woods would make scarce a material indispensable to national industry, and the text cites the arrêté of 10 January 1933 on wood cutting and the decree-law of 23 June 1937 on the protection of trees and mountain soil.

The form matters: the ban is on unmanufactured wood, so exporting finished goods remains open. That is a local-processing requirement, the same instrument Haiti later used in other sectors, and the corpus holds the mahogany-craft and forestry material against which the ban's effect can be read.

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1944 — 1944

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- 38 - Loi du ler ma.rs 1?44 interdisant l'exportation des bftohes et p~~ches d'acajou et de t~':l-Tauti-esboiit precieux non manufactures.ref.: Moniteur No. 21 du lundi 13 mars 1944 LO I ELIE LESCOT President de la Republique Vu l'article 35 de la Constitution; Vu l'Arr@te du 10 Janvier 1933 reglementant lea coupes de bois; Vu le Decret-Loi du 23 Juin 1937 relatif ! la protection des arbres et du sol des montagnes; Considerant que le commerce d'exportation des bois precieux d'Haiti menace de provoquer la rarete d'une matiere indispensable! l'Induetrie Nationale; Surles rapports des Seoretaires d'Etat de l'Agriculture et du Travail, du Commerce et de l'Economie Nationale; Et apres deliberation en Conseil des Secretaires d'Etat; A PROFOSE lilt le Corps Legislatif a vote la Loi suivante: Article ler.- Est et demeure interdite l'e:x:portation des bftches et planchss d'acajou et de tous autres bois precieux non manufactures. Article 2.- La presents toi abroge toutes leis ou dispositions de Loi, tous decrete-lois ou dispositions de decret-loi qui lui sont contraires et sera a:ecutee ! la diligence des Secretaires d'Etat de l'Agrioulture et du Travail, du Commerce et de l'Economie Nationale. Donne au Palaia de la Chambre des Deputes, A Port-au-Prince, le 28 fevrier 1944 an l4leme de l'Independa.noe, Le President: s.) Hug. Bourjolly, av, Les Secretaires: s.) Henri P. Dugue. Ad. Teleon Donnel la kison Nationale, A Port-au-Prince, le 29 Fevrier 1944, an l4leme de l'Independance. Le President: s.) Nemours. Les Secretaires: S,) V. Beauvoir, Ch. Elisee - 39 AU NOM DE LA REPUBLIQUE Le President de la Republique ordonne que la Loi ci-dessus soit revMue du Sceau de la Republique, imprimee, publiee et executee. Donne au Palais National, A Port-au-Prince, le ler mars 1944, a.n. 14leme de l'Independance. ELIE LESCOT Par le President: Le se, fletaire d'Etat de l 'Instruction Publique 1 de l 'Agriculture et du Travail: MAURICE 1JARTIGUE Le Secretaire d'Etat des Finances, du Commerce et de l'Eoonomie Nationale: ABEL LACROIX Le Secretaire d 1 Etat de l'Interieur, de la Justice et de la Defense Nationale: VELY THEBAUD Le Secretaire d'Etat des Relations Exterieures et des Cultes: GERARD LESCOT Le Secretaire d'Etat des Travaux Publics: THEOPHILE J.B.RICHARD

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