940 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH OCTOBER, 1886.
ARTICLE XIII.
Goods of whatever kind crossing either of the two countries shall pay no transit duty. The transit of counterfeit goods or fraudulent reproductions is prohibited.
The transit of gunpowder, arms, and munitions of war may likewise be forbidden or allowed only on special authorization.
ARTICLE XIV.
Each of the two High Contracting Parties engages to accord to the other, immediately and without compensation, every favour, all privileges, or reductions in the import and export Tariff of duties upon Articles, whether mentioned or not in the present Treaty, which either has granted or may hereafter grant to a third Power.
The High Contracting Parties further engage not to establish the one against the other any import or export duty or prohibition which shall not at the same time be applicable to all other nations.
The most-favoured-nation treatment is reciprocally guaranteed to each of the High Contracting Parties, in respect of everything relating to the consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, transit, and transhipment of merchandize and trade and navigation in general.
ARTICLE XV.
The principle recognized in the preceding Article is not applicable-
1. To the importation, exportation, and transit of merchandize, which is or may become the object of State monopoly.
2. To merchandize whether specified or not in the present Treaty, in regard of which one of the High Contracting Parties should deem necessary to establish temporary prohibitions or restrictions, with regard to importation or transit, for sanitary reasons, for opposing the spread of cattle diseases or distruction of crops, or on account of and in view of warlike events.
ARTICLE XVI.
The repayment of duties ("drawbacks") now existing or which may be established on the exportation of Spanish products and, reciprocally, the return of duties ("drawbacks") established on the exportation of French products shall be the exact equivalent of the excise charges or taxes levied on the consumption of the said articles or the materials employed in their manufacture.
ARTICLE XVII.
Me chandize of any kind having origin in either of the two countries and imported into the other, shall not be liable to higher excise dues or taxes on their consumption than those imposed, or which may be imposed, upon similar merchandize of home production.
Import duties may, however, be increased by an amount equivalent to the sums which, on account of expenses thrown on the home producers, in consequence of the tax on manufacture (excise), is levied on them under that heading.
ARTICLE XVIII.
The Spanish Government guarantees that French products shall not in any case be subjected, by any provinces, communes, establishments, or Corporations, to taxes on consumption or any other imposts of any denomination whatsoever, other or higher than those to which the products of the country are liable; and the French Government, on its part, guarantees that the products of Spain shall not be subjected by any departments, communes, establishments, or Corporations, to taxes on consumption, or to any other imposts of any denomination whatsoever other or higher than those to which the products of the country are subject.
ARTICLE XIX.
Silversmiths' and jewellers' wares in gold and silver imported from one of the countries shall be submitted in the other to the assay instituted for similar articles of native manufacture, and shall be liable, upon the same footing as the latter, to the dues for assay marks.
ARTICLE XX.
Each of the two High Contracting Parties may insist that the importer, in order to prove that the products belong by origin or manufacture to the other country, shall present at the Customs office of the country to which they are imported an official declaration setting forth the circumstances made by the producer or manufacturer of the merchandize or by any other person duly authorized by him, before the local authorities of the place of production or depôt; the respective Consuls or Consular Agents shall certify, free of all expense, to the signatures of the local authorities.
ARTICLE XXI.
Spanish vessels, laden or not, and their cargoes in France or Algiers, and French vessels, laden or not, and their cargoes in Spain, upon their arrival from any port, whatever the place of the origin or of the destination of their cargo, shall in every respect, upon their entry, during their stay and at their departure, enjoy the same treatment as the native vessels and their cargoes.
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