Treaty of Amity and Commerce

The Prussian Prime Minister, Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, and the United States Ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, have presented the government of the USA with a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States of America which will establish a commercial alliance between the two countries. If this treaty is signed, it will promote free trade and commerce.\n\nThe main provisions of the treaty are as follows:\nPeace and friendship between the Kingdom of Prussia and the U.S.\nMutual Most Favored Nation status with regard to commerce and navigation\nMutual protection of all vessels and cargo when in U.S. or Prussian jurisdiction\nMutual right for citizens of one country to hold land in other's territory\nMutual right to search a ship of the other's coming out of an enemy port for contraband\nMutual right to trade with enemy states of the other as long as those goods are not contraband\nIf the two nations become enemies, nine months protection of merchant ships in enemy territory\nUnconditional humane custody for war prisoner\nMutual right to have Consuls, Vice Consuls, Agents, and Commissaries of one nation in the other's ports.