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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST. 1882.

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and Ireland, whether intended for consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, shall be treated in the same manner as, and in particular, shall be subject to no higher or other duties or surcharges, whether general, municipal, or local, than the produce, manufactures, and other goods of any third country the most favoured in this respect, except as regards such special facilities, as have been, or may hereafter be, conceded on the part of Montenegro to the neighbouring States, with respect to the traffic in local produce and manufactures between their conterminous frontier districts. No other or higher duties shall be levied in Montenegro, on the exportation of any goods to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; or in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the exportation of any goods to Montenegro, than may be levied on the exportation of any like goods, to any third country the most favoured in this respect.

Neither of the Contracting Parties shall establish a prohibition of importation, exportation, or transit, against the other, which shall not under like circumstances be applicable to any third country the most favoured in this repect. In like manner, all that relates to local dues, Customs' formalities, brokerage, patterns or samples, introduced by commercial travellers, and all other matters connected with trade, British subjects in Montenegro, and Montenegrin subjects in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall enjoy the most-favoured-nation treatment.

ARTICLE III.

All British produce or manufactured goods shall be imported into Montenegro free of all duties or charges, with the exception only of such dues as shall be levied for custom-house porterage, public weighing, and for the maintenance and improvement of quays and custom-house buildings.

And any reduction in these dues, granted to the goods or manufactures of any third Power, shall be at once and unconditionally extended to British produce or manufactured goods.

The Montenegrin Government reserves, however, the right of levying an import duty on British manufactures and produce, when it shall deem it expedient. Nevertheless the Montenegrin Government binds itself to give the British Government previous notice of such decision, six months before the measure is put in force, and engages further that such rate of duty shall not exceed 8 per cent. ad valorem. The Montenegrin Government engages, moreover, not to levy any such duties except when they are also applicable to the like manufactures and products of all other foreign countries.

The following articles are excepted from the right of free importation into Montenegro, viz. :—

Arms of all kinds.

Gunpowder and other explosives.

Munitions of war.

Salt. Saltpetre

Sulphur. Spirits. Tobacco.

Wines.

The above products shall be subject in Montenegro to the same conditions as the like products of any third Power, the most favoured in this respect.

ARTICLE IV.

The duties ad valorem which may hereafter be levied in Montenegro, on British produce or manu- factured goods, shall be calculated on the value at the place of production or fabrication of the article imported, with the addition of the cost of transport, insurance, or commission, necessary for its importa- tion into Montenegro, as far as the port of discharge or place of entry.

For the levying of these dues, the importer shall make a written declaration at the custom-house, stating the value and description of the goods imported. If the Custom-house authorities are of opinion that the declared value is insufficient, they shall be at liberty to take the goods on paying to the im- porter the price declared, namely, the value at the place of production or fabrication of the article imported, with the addition of the cost of transport, insurance, and commission necessary for importa- tion into Montenegro, as far as the port of discharge or place of entry, with an addition of 5 per cent.

This payment, together with the restitution of any duty which may have been levied upon such goods, shall be made within fifteen days following the declaration.

Goods unaccompanied by the above-mentioned declaration, will not be entitled to the benefit of paying the ad valorem duties stipulated in the present Treaty, but shall be subject to the specific or other duties imposed by the Montenegrin Government.

ARTICLE V.

The Montenegrin Government reserves to itself the right, after an understanding with Her Majesty's

's Legation, to limit to certain places, the custom-houses through which goods charged ad valorem may enter Montenegro.

The Montenegrin Government likewise reserves to itself the right to require that the importer shall produce, together with his declaration of value on the entry of the goods into Montenegro, one or other, at his option, of the following documents, namely:-

1. A declaration of value made before the magistrate at the place of manufacture or production. 2. A certificate of value from the Chamber of Commerce at the place of production; or,

3. A declaration of value made before the nearest Montenegrin Consul. The fee of such Consul on certifying this declaration shall not exceed 5s.