The treatment of the most favoured nation is reciprocally guaranteed to each of the two countries in all that concerns transit. It is understood that each of the two High Contracting Parties rescrves to itself to decide as regards goods and merchandize passing from one or other of the two countries, on such prohibitions or temporary restrictions of import, export, or transit which they may think necessary to enforce for sanitary reasons, to prevent the spread of cattle diseases, or the destruction of crops, or in view of events of war. ARTICLE III. Prohibitions of Imports and Exports.—Most-favoured-nation The High Contracting Parties engage not to enforce one against the other any prohibition of importation or exportation which shall not at the same time be applicable to all other nations. ARTICLE IV. Duties of Octroi, Excise and Internal Consumption.-National Treatment. Goods, the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom imported into France or Algeria, shall not be subject to any other or higher duties of octroi, excise, or internal consumption than those which are or may be charged upon the like goods of French origin; and in like manner goods, the produce or manufacture of France or Algeria, imported into the United Kingdom shall not be subject to any other or higher duties of octroi, excise, or internal consumption than those which are or may be charged upon the like goods of British origin, ARTICLE V. Importation of Machinery. The importer of machines and mechanical instruments, complete or in detached pieces, shall be exempt from the obligation of producing at the Customs any model or drawing of the imported article. ARTICLE VI Commercial Travellers' Patterns and Samples. Articles liable to duty, serving as patterns or samples, which shall be introduced into the United Kingdom by French com mercial travellers, or into France and Algeria by commercial travellers of the United Kingdom, shall be admitted free of duty, subject to the following formalities requisite to insure their being re-exported or placed in bond: 1. The officers of Customs at any port or place at which the patterns and samples may be imported shall ascertain the amount of duty chargeable thereon. That amount must either be deposited by the commercial traveller at the Customhouse in money, or ample security must be given for it. 2. For the purpose of identification, each separate pattern or sample shall, as far as possible, be marked by the affixing of a stamp, or by means of a seal being attached to it. 3. A permit or certificate shall be given to the importer which shall contain (a.) A list of the patterns or samples imported, specifying the nature of the goods, and also such particular marks as may be proper for the purpose of identification; (b.) A statement of the duty chargeable on the patterns or samples, as also whether the amount was deposited in money, or whether security was given for it; (c.) A statement showing the manner in which the patterns or samples were marked; (d.) The appointment of a period, which at the utmost must not exceed twelve mouths, at the expiration of which, unless it is proved that the patterns or samples have been previously re-exported or placed in bond, the amount of duty deposited will be carried to the public account or the amount recovered under the security given. No charge shall be made to the importer for the above permit or certificate, or for marking for identification. 4. Patterns or samples may be re-exported through the Custom-house through which they were imported, or through any other. 5. It before the expiration of the appointed time (paragraph 3 d) the patterns or samples should be presented at the Customhouse of any port or place for the purpose of re-exportation or being placed in bond, the officers at such port or place must satisfy themselves by examination whether the articles which are brought to them are the same as those for which the permit of entry was granted. If so satisfied, the officers will certify the re-exportation or deposit in bond, and will refund the duty which had been deposited, or will take the necessary steps for discharging the security. ARTICLE VII. Vessels and Cargoes.-National Treatment. British ships and their cargoes shall in France and Algeria, and French ships and their cargoes shall, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from whatever place arriving, and whatever may be the place of origin or destination of their cargoes, be treated in every respect as national ships and their cargoes. ARTICLE VIII. Tonnage, Landing, and Shipping Dues.-National Treatment. The two High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the power of levying tonnage, landing or shipping dues in order to pay the expenses of all necessary establishments at the ports of importation and exportation, but all these dues, whether levied by the State, towns, Chambers of Commerce, or any other corporate body, shall never be other nor higher than those which are or may be applicable to national ships and their cargoes to whatever ports they may belong, the wish of the High Contracting Parties being that in this respect English and French vessels and their cargoes shall be treated on a footing of perfect equality. Stationing, Loading and Unloading of Vessels.-Harbour Ducs, &c.— National Treatment. But in all that relates to local treatment the placing, loading, and unloading of vessels, as well as the dues and charges in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, and rivers of the two countries, and generally in respect of all formalities or regulations to which merchant-ships, their crews and cargoes are subject, the privileges, favours, or advantages which are or shall be granted to national vessels generally, or to the goods imported or exported in them, shall be equally granted to the vessels of the other country, and to the goods imported or exported in them. ARTICLE IX. Coasting Trade and Fisheries excepted. The coasting trade is excepted from the stipulations of the present Convention, and remains subject to the respective laws of the two countries. The fisheries are also excepted and remain subject to the special Conventions for the time being existing between and to the respective laws of the two countries. ARTICLE X. Trade-marks.-National Treatment. The subjects of each of the two High Contracting Parties hall, in the dominions of the other, enjoy the same protection and be subject to the same conditions as native subjects in regard to the rights of property in trade-marks, names of firms, and other distinctive marks showing the origin or quality of goods, as well as in patterns and designs for manufacture. ARTICLE XI. Exemption from Military Service, Forced Loans, &c.— The subjects of the High Contracting Parties shall be exempted from military service, requisitions, and contributions of war, forced loans, advances, and other contributions leviable under exceptional circumstances in so far as these contributions are not imposed on landed property. ARTICLE XII. Duration of Convention. The present Convention shall come into operation on the 16th May, 1882, and remain in force until the 1st February, 1892. In case neither of the two High Contracting Parties should have notified twelve months before the said date the intention of putting an end to it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the two High Contracting Parties shall have denounced it. ARTICLE XIII. Ratifications. The ratifications of the present Convention shall be exchanged at Paris at latest on the 12th May, 1882. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have thereto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at Paris, the 28th day of February, in the year 1882. No. 62. DECLARATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE, WITH REFERENCE TO THE DISPOSAL OF THE PROCEEDS OF WRECKS ON THEIR RESPECTIVE COasts. Signed at Paris, October 23, 1889.* THE Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and the Government of the French Republic, desiring to regulate by a new Agreement questions relative to the disposal of the proceeds of wrecks on the coasts of the two States, have agreed to replace the Declaration signed at London on the 16th June, 1879, by the following arrangements: ARTICLE I. Wrecks to be notified to nearest Consular Officer. When any ship belonging to the subjects of one of the two Contracting States is wrecked or stranded on the coast of the other, the competent local authorities shall, with as little delay as possible, bring the fact to the knowledge of the Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent nearest to the spot where the wreck or standing has taken place. ARTICLE II. Salvage Operations to be directed by Consular Officers. All operations relative to the salvage of British ships which may be wrecked or stranded on the coasts of France shall be directed by the Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents of Great Britain, and reciprocally, the French Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents shall direct all operations relative to the salvage of ships of their nation wrecked or stranded on the coasts of Great Britain. ARTICLE III. Consular Officers to hand over Salvage Operations to Owners If the owners of the ship and cargo, or their duly authorized representatives, shall be present and shall claim it, the Consuls *Signed also in French. |