THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH APRIL, 1893.
COMMERCIAL CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND ROUMANIA,
Signed at Bucharest, August 13, 1892.
[Ratifications exchanged at Bucharest, January 31, 1893.]
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HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the King of Roumania, being mutually desirous of consolidating their ties of friend- ship and of developing the commercial relations between the two States, have, with this object, determined to conclude a Convention, and have named as their respective Plenipotentiaries, that
is to say:
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Arthur George Vansittart, Esq., &c., &c., Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Bucharest;
His Majesty the King of Roumania, M. Lascar Catargi, Grand Cross of His Order of the Star of Roumania, &c., &c., &c., President of His Council, Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the Interior, and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs;
Who, after having communicated to each other their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-
ARTICLE I.
The subjects, vessels, and goods, produce of the soil and industry of each of the two High Con- tracting Parties, shall enjoy, in the dominions of the other, all privileges, immunities, or advantages granted to the most favoured nation.
It is, however, understood that the foregoing stipulation does not in any way affect the special Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations with regard to trade, industry, police, and public security, in force in each of the two countries, and applicable to all foreigners in general.
ARTICLE II.
All articles, produce of the soil or industry of Great Britain and Ireland, which shall be imported into Roumania, and all articles, produce of the soil or industry of Roumania, which shall be imported into Great Britain and Ireland, whether destined for consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, shall be subjected, as long as this Convention holds good, to the same treatment, and, especially, shall be liable to no higher or other duties than the produce or goods of the most favoured
nation.
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No higher or other duties shall be levied in Great Britain and Ireland on the exportation of goods to Roumania, or in Roumania on the exportation of goods to Great Britain and Ireland, than may be levied on the exportation of the like goods to the country the most favoured in this respect.
Each of the High Contracting Parties undertakes that the other shall enjoy immediately every favour, privilege, or reduction of duties which have been already granted, or may be granted hereafter, under the above-named conditions, by similar Treaties to a third Power.
Goods of all kinds coming from, or proceeding to, the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties shall be exempted, in the territory of the other, from all transit dues. Most-favoured-nation treatment is mutually guaranteed to each of the Contracting Parties, in all that concerns transit.
ARTICLE III.
The subjects of each of the two High Contracting Parties shall be exempted, in the territory of the other, from all military service and from all extraordinary requisitions which may be established on account of exceptional circumstances.
The liabilities, however, arising out of the possession of landed property, and for military loans and requisitions to which all the subjects of the State may be called upon to contribute as proprietors, farmers, or tenants of real property, shall be excepted.
ARTICLE IV.
The present Convention shall be applicable, as far as the laws permit, to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to-
India.
The Dominion of Canada.
Newfoundland.
New South Wales.
Victoria.
South Australia.
Western Australia.
Queensland.
Tasmania.
New Zealand.
The Cape of Good Hope. Natal.
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