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IRO/50/90

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Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Fairs, Meetings or Similar Events 1961

Handed over

to Chinese side on 20.11.1990

the

temporary

The Customs

events as

Convention concerning Facilities for

Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Fairs, Meetings or Similar Events 1961 (the "Convention")

sets out provisions whereby the parties agree to grant admission to goods for display or demonstration at

well as equipment for use at international meetings under specified conditions (Articles 2 and 3). It also sets out conditions of re-exportation (Article 4) and

cther means of disposal (Article

for 5)

goods granted

temporary admission. The parties also agree to waive import duties and restrictions in respect of advertising samples,

goods for display and demonstration which are consumed or destroyed during an event, publicity material and documents for use at international meetings (Article 6). They also undertake to simplify customs formalities in connection with the facilities provided for in the Convention (Article 8).

2.

The United Kingdom ratified the Convention on 25

March 1963 (text at Annex A). The Convention entered into

force

13 July

Article 22 provides

by

on

with accordance

1962 in

Article 19.

that any state may, at the time of

instrument

of

signature or of the deposit of its ratification or accession or at any time thereafter, declare

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 a declaration in respect

of Hong Kong on 14 December 1973 (text at Annex B).

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