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requirement, restriction or prohibition on imports, or on the transfer of payments therefor, shall be enforced before such measure has been officially published. 3. (a) Each Member shall administer in a uniform, impartial and reasonable manner all its laws, regulations, decisions and rulings of the kind described in paragraph 1 of this Article. (b) Each Member shall maintain, or institute as soon as practicable, judicial, arbitral or administrative tribunals or procedures for the purpose, inter alia, of the prompt review and correction of administrative action relating to customs matters. Such tribunals or procedures shall be independent of the agencies entrusted with administrative enforcement and their decisions shall be implemented by and shall govern the practice of such agencies unless an appeal is lodged with a court or tribunal of superior jurisdiction within the time prescribed for appeals to be lodged by importers ; Provided that the central administration of such agency may take steps to obtain a review of the matter in another proceeding if there is good cause to believe that the decision is inconsistent with established principles of law or the actual facts. (c) The provisions of sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph shall not require the elimination or substitution of procedures in force in a Member ■country on the day of the signature of this Charter which in fact provide for an objective impartial review of administrative action even though such procedures are not fully or formally independent of the agencies entrusted with administrative enforcement. Any Member employing Such procedures shall, upon request, furnish the Organization with full information thereon in order that the Organization may determine whether such procedures conform to the requirements of this subparagraph and those of sub-paragraph (b). Article 38 Information, Statistics and Trade Terminology 1. The Member shall communicate to the Organization, or to such agency as may be designated for the purpose by the Organization, as promptly and in as much detail as is reasonably practicable: (a) Statistics of their external trade in goods (imports, exports and, where applicable, re-exports, transit, and trans-shipment and goods in warehouse or in bond) ; (b) Statistics of governmental revenue from import and export duties and other taxes on goods moving in international trade and, in so far as readily ascertainable, of subsidy payments affecting such trade.