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DRAFT CONVENTION
FOR THE PURPOSE OF FACILITATING COMMERCIAL PROPAGANDA.
Preamble.
(List of countries)
Believing that the adoption of uniform regulations designed to facilitate commercial
propaganda would be calculated to have a favourable effect on the growth of commercial
transactions,
Have decided to conclude a Convention for this purpose.
The High Contracting Parties have consequently appointed as their plenipotentiaries:
Who, having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form,
have agreed as follows:
Article i.
1. The High Contracting Parties agree to exempt from import duties on importation samples
of goods of all kinds, provided they are, in the opinion of the Customs Administration concerned,
of no saleable value and can only be used for soliciting orders.
2. This however does not apply to samples of goods which form the subject of a State
monopoly or the import and transit of which is prohibited or subject to special regulations on
moral, humanitarian, hygienic, veterinary or phytopathological grounds, or on grounds of public
safety.
Article 2.
Samples of the following goods in particular, shall be exempt from import duties, in so
far as they are not excluded from exemption under the general principles laid down m the
preceding article.
1. Foodstuffs and beverages, including wine, spirits, cider beer, mineral waters, juice
of grapes or other fruits, edible oils, margarine and other edible fats, etc., provided that no
more than one sample of each kind or quality is included m every consignment and that the
weight or volume of these products does not exceed the limits laid down by the importing
country as compatible with the character of samples.
2. Base metals, skins, leather, rubber, wood, cork and similar substances, also materials
plaited or spun, in sheets, bundles, sets or individual pieces, of a shape prec u mg le
possibility of any other use than as samples, or in threads, bars, tubes, cables or cords ot
a maximum length of 10 cm., affixed or not on cards and not capable of any use an as
samples.
3 Sets of papers, envelopes, notepaper and picture postcards, rendered useless by
being pasted on sheets, cancelled by a stamp, etc., wallpapers, mounted on stands or not,
sent by a foreign supplier to customers and bearing his name or mark, and also smgle
portions of paper or wallpaper suitable for showing an entire design but not usable lor any
other purpose.
4. Samples of threads of all kinds arranged on cards in order of size, quality or colour,
sent by a supplier to a customer.
5. Woven textiles of all kinds and felt cloths made into sets or bundles, bearing the
name or mark of the supplier, or imported in separate pieces, provided that owing to their
size and nature they can be used only as samples or are rendered useless for other purposes;
for example, by cuts or perforations.