THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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without being liable to other or higher duties,
of whatever denomination, than if such goods
wese imported in national vessels.
With regard to pure or mixed tissues,
taxed ad valorem, the valuation of which in
the ports may appear to the Belgian Govern-
ment to present difficulties, the Belgian Govern-
ment reserves to itself the power to designate
the Custom-house of Brussels exclusively for
the admission of such goods.

ARTICLE IX.
Goods of every kind which may be ex-
ported either from Belgium by British vessels,
or from Great Britain and the British Posses-
sions by Belgian vessels, for whatever destina-
tion, shall not be liable to any other duties or
formalities on departure than if they were
exported in national vessels; and they shall
enjoy, under either flag, all bounties and
drawbacks, or other favours, which are or may
be granted in each of the two countries to
national vessels.

ARTICLE X.
During the period allowed by the laws of
the two countries for the warehousing of
goods, no other duties than those for custody,
and storage shall be levied upon articles
imported from one of the two countries into
the other, until they shall be removed for
transit, re-exportation, or internal consumption.
In no case shall such articles pay higher du-
ties, or be liable to other formalities, than if they
had been imported under the national flag, or
from the most favoured country.

ARTICLE XI.
Goods of every kind coming 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 Con-
tracting Parties reserve to themselves to sub-
ject 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 ware-
housing.

ARTICLE XII.
With regard to the coasting trade, it is
agreed between the High Contracting Parties
that the subjects and vessels of each of them
shall, in the dominions and possessions of the
other, enjoy the same privileges, and be treated
in all respects on the same footing, as national
subjects and vessels.
With regard to the coasting trade in the
Colonies, the stipulations of the present Article
shall be applicable only to the coasting trade
of such of the Colonies of Her Britannic
Majesty as have applied or shall hereafter
apply, in comformity with the Acts of Parlia-
ment which govern this matter, that their
coasting trade may be open to foreign vessels.

ARTICLE. XIII.
The regulations established for goods im-
ported from France into Belgium by Articles
XVIII to XXVI inclusive, of the Treaty of
Commerce concluded between the two co-
untries on the 1st of May, 1861, shall equally
apply in Belgium to the same goods imported
from Great Britain and its Possessions.

ARTICLE XIV.
Neither of the two High Contracting Par-
ties shall impose upon goods the produce or
manufacture of the other party, other or higher
duries of importation than such as are or may
be imposed upon the same goods the produce
of any other foreign country.
Each of the two Parties engages to extend
to the other any favour or privelege, or reduc-
tion in the Tariff of duties of importation or
exportation, on articles mentioned, or not men-
tioned in the present Treaty, which either of
them may grant to any third Power. They
engage, moreover, not to establish against each
other any duty or prohibition of importation or
exportation, which shall not, at the same time,
be applicable to all other nations.
It is further agreed that if sea salt refined
in Belgium should obtain a deduction of more
than seven per cent. from the general duty of
excise, British salt refined in Belgium shall
enjoy, at the same moment, a deduction from
the excise which shall not be inferior by more
than seven per cent. to the deduction granted to
sea salt.

ARTICLE XV.
Articles the produce or manufacture of Bel-
gium shall not be subject in the British Colo-
nies to other or higher duties than those which
are or may be imposed upon similar articles of
British origin.

ARTICLE XVI.
The subjects of one of the High Contracting
Parties shall enjoy, in the dominions of the
other, the same protection as native subjects
in all that relates to property in trade marks,
as well as in industrial and manufacturing
patterns and models of every description.
The exclusive right to make use of an
industrial or manufacturing pattern or model
shall not, with regard to British subjects in
Belgium, and reciprocally with regard to
Belgian subjects in Great Britain, have a
duration longer than that fixed by the law of
the country for native subjects.
If the industrial or manufacturing pattern
or model is open to the public in the country
of origin, it cannot be made the subject of an
exclusive right in the other country.
The provisions of the two preceding para-
graphs are applicable to trade marks.
The rights of subjects of one of the High
Contracting Parties in the dominions of the
other are not subject to the condition that the
models or patterns shall be worked there.
The present Article shall not be put into
operation in either country, with regard to
such models or patterns, until the expiration of
a year from the date of the signature of the
present Treaty.