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TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION

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Art. XI.-No internal duties levied for the benefit of the State, local authorities, or corporations which affect, or may affect, the production, manufacture, or consump tion of any article in the territories of either of the high contracting parties shall for any reason be a higher or more burdensome charge on articles the produce or manufacture of the territories of the other than on similar articles of native origin.

The produce or manufacture of the territories of either of the high contracting parties imported into the territories of the other, and intended for warehousing or transit, shall not be subjected to any internal duty.

Art. XII.-Merchants and manufacturers, subjects of one of the high contract- ing parties, as well as merchants and manufacturers domiciled and exercising their commerce and industries in the territories of such party, may, in the territories of the other, either personally or by means of commercial travellers, make purchases or collect orders, with or without samples, and such merchants, manufacturers, and their commercial travellers, while so making purchases and collecting orders, shall in the matter of taxation and facilities, enjoy the most favoured nation treatment.

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Articles imported as samples for the purposes above-mentioned shall, in each country, be temporarily admitted free of duty on compliance with the Customs re- gulations and formalities established to assure their re-exportation or the payment of the prescribed Customs duties if not re-exported within the period allowed by law. But the foregoing privilege shall not extend to articles which, owing to their quantity or value, cannot be considered as samples, or which, owing to their nature, could not be identified upon re-exportation. The determination of the question of the qualifica- tion of samples for duty-tree admission rests in all cases exclusively with the com- petent authorities of the place where the importation is effected.

Art. XIII.-The marks, stamps, or seals placed upon the samples mentioned in the preceding Article by the Customs authorities of one country at the time of ex- portation, and the officially-attested list of such samples containing a full description thereof issued by them, shall by reciprocally accepted by the Customs officials of the other as establishing their character as samples and exempting them from inspection except so far as may be necessary to establish that the samples produced are those enumerated in the list. The Customs authorities of either country may, however, affix a supplementary mark to such samples in special cases where they may think this precaution necessary.

Art. XIV. -The Chambers of Commerce, as well as such other Trade Association, and other recognised Commercial Associations in the territories of the high con- tracting Parties as may be authorised in this behalf, shall be mutually accepted as competent authorities for issuing any certificates that may be required for com- mercial travellers.

Art. XV.-Limited liability and other companies and associations, commercial, industrial, and financial, already or hereafter to be organised in accordance with the laws of either high contracting party, are authorised, in the territories of the others to exercise their right and appear in the Courts either as plaintiffs or defendants, subject to the laws of such other party.

Art. XVI.-Each of the high contracting parties shall permit the importation or exportation of all merchandise which may be legally imported or exported, and also the carriage of passengers from or to their respective territories, upon the vessels of the other; and such vessels, their cargoes, and passengers, shall enjoy the same privileges as, and shall not be subjected to, any other or higher duties or charges than national vessels and their cargoes and passengers.

Art. XVII. In all that regards the stationing, loading, and unloading of vessels in the ports, docks, roadsteads, and harbours of the high contracting parties, on privileges or facilities shall be granted by either party to national vessels which are