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 Article 16 promises mutual assistance in the granting of through rates on passengers and goods as circumstances require.

Article 17 relates to other matters of international railway traffic.

Under Article 18, where direct railway connection across the frontier exists and the rolling stock can be transferred from one system to the other, goods in suitable closed trucks are to be exempt from examination at the frontier, on presentation of the waybill, and to be examined at the most convenient Customs station in the interior.

Article 19 secures the trading rights of individuals; merchants and other business men on their giving proof of payment of the trade taxes in their country of domicile, are exempt from similar dues when visiting the other country, personally or by their travellers, and accompanied by samples, for the purpose of buying or selling. Natives of either country entering the other in pursuit of their calling as supercargoes, or as masters or crews of vessels plying on river or sea, shall not be subject to any trading tax in the other country.

Joint-stock companies and other commercial, industrial, or financial associations, including insurance companies, domiciled in either country and established according to law, may pursue in the other country (in accordance with the conditions of the law of the land) their legal rights, especially as plaintiffs or defendants in lawsuits. How far such companies and associations may acquire real or other property in the other country is to be determined by the law of that country; and this also applies to permission to carry on business there. In any case they shall enjoy the same rights as any at present existing similar companies, subjects of any third Power.

Article 20 provides that, with regard to the exemption