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International Tariffs

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3. These tariffs are negotiated and approved within the framework of a

series of interlockingbilateral and multilateral agreements which contain similar,

but not identical, provisions for the purpose. Most of these agreements call

for tariffs to be agreed between the designated carriers of the two countries

concerned, usually in consultation with other interested carriers and

whenever possible within the Traffic Conference machinery of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which serves as a convenient and world-wide

airline forum. ASAȘ also normally provide for a designated carrier to propose

its own tariffs when agreement within IATA or with the designated carriers

of the other country is not reached; it is also open to non-IATA airlines to

propose tariffs which are different from those in an IATA agreement. Regardless

of the manner in which the tariffs are proposed, however, they are subject to

the approval of the governments concerned; in the case of an IATA tariff agreement,

the approval of all governments is necessary before the agreement can be declared

effective in its entirety, but in the case of proposals from individual carriers

only the approval of the two governments on the route concerned is required. ·

4. An IATA tariff agreement (which normally covers fares between a number of

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countries) is usually referred to as such, or as a fares package, whereas

individual carrier proposals (which normally cover fares only between two countries)

are referred to as bilateral filings. There are important differences between

the two types. An IATA tariff agreement is not usually regarded as filing within

the terms of ASAS and it does not take automatic effed in the absence of

governmental approval it is open to governments to approve the package in its

entirety; approve it with modifications (technically, this is done by placing

a reservation on the approval); or to reject the agreement without the need to express formal dissatisfaction to the other governments(s) concerned under the

requirements of the ASA(s). There is not the same latitude the a bilateral

filing, however, which must must be processed under the provisions of the

relevant ASA. There is usually no scope to give modified approval to such filings

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