Mephistophelia and Agattu Trade Negotiations

[Mephistophelia]

Later that night, once the Mephistophelian delegation had acquainted themselves with proper accommodations in Reykjavik. The Ambassador arrives at Parliament House (Alpingishus) and proposes a trade agreement with the Agattu officials: "I will be able to provide gratuitous exports of cheap productions of finished goods via China, vast quantities of iron and steel from Manchuria, the richest caliber of coal from North Korea, rubber produced in Guangdong, seafood from the East Asia Sea, hydrogen from our factories at Yongbyon; Mongolian wool, hides, and livestock, as well as agricultural fruits and vegetables from the steppes; and the finest ships (both for transportation and military-grade battleships/carriers) from South Korea. In exchange for any resources that your Foreign Minister would like to propose?"

[Agattu]

As the ambassador knows, Agattu is rich in seafood, natural resources and raw materials. What Agattu needs is manufactured goods. Agattu is willing to sell oil, natural gas, and zinc to Mephistophelia in return for manufactured goods such as clothing, plastic goods and for an agreement to allow Agattan companies to establish factories within mephistophelia.

[Mephistophelia]

Greetings our newfound allies in Agattu, the Ambassador accepts your most fair offer.
We would like:
2.3 billion barrels of Oil ($80 billion/year)
48 million joules of Natural Gas ($80 billion/year)
Zinc ($10 billion/year)
We will provide finished goods (valued at $170 billion a year) from clothes to cars, day-to-day items, plastic goods, and appliances.
This memorandum will stand for the next five years, if Agattu accepts the terms and agreements. Our export-import trade would be proportionate at $170 billion/year.“

[Agattu]

Greetings our newfound allies in Agattu, the Ambassador accepts your most fair offer.
We would like:
2.3 billion barrels of Oil ($80 billion/year)
48 million joules of Natural Gas ($80 billion/year)
Zinc ($10 billion/year)
We will provide finished goods (valued at $170 billion a year) from clothes to cars, day-to-day items, plastic goods, and appliances.
This memorandum will stand for the next five years, if Agattu accepts the terms and agreements. Our export-import trade would be proportionate at $170 billion/year.“

The government of Agattu finds this offer to be generious. We would like to add a clause that will allow drilling rights off the coast of Mephistophelia for Agattan companies. Agattu has a highly developed energy sector and feels that it could bring in an economic growth period for Mephistophelia. Agattu would then be willing to pay a tax, develop the oil and sell the 2.3 billion barrels on Mephistophelia market and sell any excess on the global market. This would make the cost of oil to Mephistophelia more cost effective and allow Agattu to gain a foothold in the ever competitive oil market. We of course would want an exclusion cost preventing other nations from developing oil and gas infrastructure off the coast of Mephistophelia. If His Eminence wishes to add this clause, we have a deal.

[Mephistophelia]

Greetings our newfound allies in Agattu, the Ambassador accepts your most fair offer.
We would like:
2.3 billion barrels of Oil ($80 billion/year)
48 million joules of Natural Gas ($80 billion/year)
Zinc ($10 billion/year)
We will provide finished goods (valued at $170 billion a year) from clothes to cars, day-to-day items, plastic goods, and appliances.
This memorandum will stand for the next five years, if Agattu accepts the terms and agreements. Our export-import trade would be proportionate at $170 billion/year.“

The government of Agattu finds this offer to be generious.  We would like to add a clause that will allow drilling rights off the coast of Mephistophelia for Agattan companies. Agattu has a highly developed energy sector and feels that it could bring in an economic growth period for Mephistophelia.  Agattu would then be willing to pay a tax, develop the oil and sell the 2.3 billion barrels on Mephistophelia market and sell any excess on the global market. This would make the cost of oil to Mephistophelia more cost effective and allow Agattu to gain a foothold in the ever competitive oil market. We of course would want an exclusion cost preventing other nations from developing oil and gas infrastructure off the coast of Mephistophelia. If His Eminence wishes to add this clause, we have a deal.

We will accept your deal in the rights to drill off the coast of Mephistophelia by Agattan companies. If we can place limits for your drilling rights to certain areas of our territory. We will allow drilling within the Sea of Okhotsk- most notably our newly acquired territories of the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands despite any claims, Stalin would say otherwise. We would also allow drilling near the Taiwan Strait and the Luzon Strait and near Okinawa. The most resource rich country in oil would be Kazakhstan, we will allow land drilling of oil in this controversial territory of ours until the Superpowers Expansion Limitation Treaty (SELT) is ratified. The lease for Kazakhstan's oil drilling rights to Agattu is yours for the taking until the Treaty passes, we will reduce the usual 15% tax on oil production in this territory to 10% and give you an exclusive mining rights within this territory for rare earths, iron and steel, and coal. Though the above-mentioned territories for oil and gas drilling will be as you said exclusively for Agattu and no other nation. This is a most generous offer, and I felt that the territories I mentioned are the most prosperous for your enterprise.

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