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IRO/49/90 CONFIDENTIAL

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Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Professional Equipment 1961

Handed over

to Chinese side on

20.11.1990

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HK telno 3435 refers pa HKC 031/12

CS 30/11

0 3 DEC 1990

INDE

The

Customs

Importation

of

Professional

ConventionTM on

Equipment

the Temporary

1961

(the

"Convention")

import duties

subject to

provides for the temporary admission, free of and restrictions, of professional equipment, specified conditions in the Articles and in the

Annexes

The to the Convention (Article 1 and Article 2).

parties also

that equipment granted temporary admission shall be re-exported within six months from the date of importation (Article 4). Such re-exportation may be in one or several consignments (Article 5).

agree

I

2.

A state signing,

ratifying or acceding

to the

or

Convention may declare by which Annex or Annexes to the

Convention it considers itself bound (Article 15). Annex A

relates

to equipment for the press or

sound for

television broadcasting. Annex B relates to cinematographic equipment and Annex C to other professional equipment. Each Annex specifies the conditions for granting temporary

admission of the equipment referred to in that Annex. Article 8 provides that the Annex or Annexes by which a Contracting Party is bound shall be construed as an integral part of the Convention in relation to that party.

3.

The United Kingdom ratified the Convention on 25 March 1963 (text at Annex A). The Convention entered into force on 1 July 1962 in accordance with Article 16. Article 19 provides that at the time of signature or deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession or at any time thereafter, any state may declare by notification that the

Convention extends to all or any of the territories for whose international relations it is responsible. The United

Kingdom did not make such a declaration at the time of the United Kingdom's ratification of the Convention but it did make such a declaration in respect of Hong Kong on 14

December 1973 (text at Annex B). It declared, in accordance

with Article 19, that Annexes A, B and C would apply to Hong

Kong (Article 15) with effect from 14 March 1974.

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