(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of the foregoing paragraph, all facilities or privileges in respect of commercial travellers, commercial samples and advertising material accorded in any territory by one Contracting Party to any other foreign country shall be accorded to the other Contracting Party.
ARTICLE 23
(1) Persons, baggage and goods and also vessels and other means of transport shall be deemed to be in transit across any territory of one Contracting Party when the passage across that territory, with or without trans-shipment, warehousing, breaking bulk, or change in the mode of transport, is only a portion of a complete journey beginning and terminating beyond the frontier of the Contracting Party across whose territory the traffic passes. Traffic of this nature is termed in this Article "traffic in transit ".
(2) There shall be freedom of transit through any territory of one Contracting Party, via the routes most convenient for international transit, for traffic in transit to or from any territory of the other. No distinction shall be made which is based on the nationality of persons, the flag of vessels, the place of origin, departure, entry, exit or destination, or on any circumstances relating to the ownership of goods, of vessels or of other means of transport.
(3) The Contracting Parties may require baggage and goods and also vessels and other means of transport in transit through any of their territories to be entered at the proper custom house.
(4) Traffic in transit through any territory of one Contracting Party to or from any territory of the other shall not, except in case of failure to comply with applicable customs laws and regulations, be subject to any delays or restrictions other than to the minimum extent that may be necessary to ensure compliance with the applicable customs laws and regulations, and shall be exempt from customs duties and from all transit duties or other charges imposed in respect of transit, except charges for transportation or those commensurate with administrative expenses entailed by transit or with the cost of services rendered.
(5) All charges and regulations imposed by one Contracting Party on traffic in transit to or from any territory of the other shall be reasonable, having regard to the conditions of the traffic.
(6) With respect to all charges, regulations and formalities in connection with transit, one Contracting Party shall accord to traffic in transit to or from any territory of the other treatment not less favourable than that accorded to traffic in transit to or from any other foreign country.
(7) One Contracting Party shall accord to baggage and goods which have been in transit through any territory of the other treatment not less favourable than that which would have been accorded to such baggage and
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