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Import Duties : Produce and Manufactures. —The produce and manufactures of, as well as all goods coming from, Austria-Hungary which are imported into the territories and possessions, including the colonies and foreign possessions, of Her Britannic Majesty, and the produce and manufactures of, as well as all goods coming from, British possessions which are imported into the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, whether intended for consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or transit, shall therein during the continuance of this treaty be treated in the same manner as, and in particular shall be subjected to no higher or other duties than, the produce and goods of any third country the most favoured in this respect. (Article IT.) Export Duties. —No other or higher duties shall be levied in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the exportation of any goods to the territories and possessions, including the colonies and foreign possessions, of Her Britannic Majesty, or in the territories and possessions, including the colonies and foreign possessions, of Her Britannic Majesty on the exportation of any goods to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, than on the exportation of the like goods to any third country the most favoured in this respect. (Article II.) Transit of Goods. —The two High Contracting Parties likewise guarantee to each other treatment on the footing of the most favoured third country in regard to the transit of goods through the territory of the one from and to the territory of the other. (Article II.) Favours, Immunities, and Seductions in Tariff. — Every reduction iv the tariff of import and export duties, as well as every favour or immunity that one of the Contracting Parties grants to the subjects and commerce of a third Power, shall be participated in simultaneously and unconditionally by the other. (Article III.) Exceptions : Turkish Trade, Frontier Traffic and District Privileges, Customs Union. —The stipulations of the foregoing Articles I. to 111., relative to the reciprocal treatment on the footing of the most favoured third country, shall not apply —(1.) To those special and ancient privileges which are accorded to Turkish subjects for the Turkish trade in Austria-Hungary. (2.) To those advantages which are or may be granted on the part of the Austro-Hungariaii Monarchy to the neighbouring countries solely for the purpose of facilitating the frontier traffic, or to those reductions of, or exemptions from, Customs duties which are only valid in the said monarchy for certain frontiers, or for the inhabitants of certain districts. (3.) To the obligations imposed upon either of the High Contracting Parties by a Customs Union already concluded, or which may hereafter be concluded. (Article IV.) Prohibitions. —Neither of the High Contracting Parties shall, establish a prohibition of importation, exportation, or transit against the other which shall not, under like circumstances, bo applicable to the third country most favoured in this respect. (Article V.) If applicable to British Colonies. Subjects : Import Duties, Sfc. —Applicable to " colonies and foreign possessions " of Her Britannic Majesty. (Articles Ito III.) BELGIUM:.—JuIt 23, 1862. Commerce and .Navigation. —The present treaty shall continue in force for ten years dating from the tenth day after the exchange of the ratifications (August 30, 1862). Iv case neither of the two High Contracting Parties should have notified twelve months before the end of the said period its intention to terminate the treaty, it shall remain in force until the expiration of a year dating from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice for its termination. The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the right to introduce into the treaty, by common consent, any modifications which may not be at variance with its spirit or principles, and the utility of which may be shown by experience. (Article XXV.) Most-favoured-Nation Treatment. Subjects: Privileges, Favours, Immunities. —In all that relates to navigation and commerce the High Contracting Parties shall not grant any privilege, favour, or immunity to any other country which shall not be also and immediately extended to their respective subjects. (Article III.) Transit and Warehousing Duties.- —Goods of every kind corning from or going to either of the two countries shall reciprocally be exempted from all transit duty. The prohibition in regard to gunpowder is, however, maintained; and the two High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves to subject the transit of arms of war to special authorizations. The treatment of the most favoured nation is reciprocally guaranteed to each of the two countries in all. that concerns transit and warehousing. (Article XL) Import Duties: Produce and Manufactures. —Neither of the two High Contracting Parties shall impose upon goods the produce or manufacture of the other Party other or higher duties of importation than such as are or may be imposed upon the same goods the produce of any other foreign country. (Article XIV.) Favours, Privileges, and Seductions in Tariff. —Each of the two Parties engages to extend to the other any favour or privilege, or reduction in the tariff of duties of importation or exportation, on articles mentioned or not mentioned in the present treaty, which either of them may grant to any third Power. (Article XIV.) Prohibitions. —They engage, moreover, not to establish against each other any duty or prohibition of import ation or exportation which shall not, at the same time, be applicable to all other nations. (Article XIV.) Consuls. —Each of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right to name Consuls for the protection of trade in the dominions and territories of the other Party ; and the Consuls who may be bo appointed shall enjoy, within the territories of each Party, all the privileges, exemptions, and immunities which are or may be granted in those territories to agents of the same rank and character appointed by or authorized to act for the Government of the most favoured nation. (Article XVIII.) Temporary Exceptions: Cotton Yarns and Woollen Goods. —As a temporary exception to the