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 105 STAT. 2606 PROCLAMATION 6308—JUNE 24, 1991 (e) laws, regulations and requirements affecting the sale, offering for sale, piu'chase, transportation, distribution, storage and use of products in the domestic market. 2. Each Party shall accord to products originating in or exported to the territory of the other Party nondiscriminatory treatment with respect to the application of quantitative restrictions and the granting of licenses. 3. Each Party shall accord to imports of products and services originating in the territory of the other Party nondiscriminatory treatment with respect to the allocation of and access to the currency needed to pay for such imports. 4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to: (a) advantages accorded by either Party by virtue of such Party's full membership in a customs union or firee trade area; (b) advantages accorded to adjacent countries for the facilitation of frontier traffic; (c) actions by either Party which are required or permitted by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the "GATT") (or by any joint action or decision of the Contracting Parties to the GATT) during such time as such Party is a Contracting Party to the GATT; and special advantages accorded by virtue of the GATT; and (d) actions taken under Article XI (Market Disruption) of this Agreement. 5. The provisions of paragraph 2 of the Article shall not apply to Mongolian exports of textiles and textile products. Article II.—Market Access for Products and Services 1. Each Party shall administer all tariff and nontariff measiu'es affecting trade in a manner which affords, with respect to both third country and domestic competitors, meaningful competitive opportunities for products and services of the other Party. 2. Accordingly, neither Party shall impose, directly or indirectly, on the products of the other Party imported into its territory, internal taxes or charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like domestic products. 3. Each Party shall accord to products originating in the territory of the other Party treatment no less favorable than that accorded to like domestic products in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements af- fecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution, storage or use. 4. The charges and measures described in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article should not be applied to imported or domestic products so as to afford protection to domestic production. 5. The Parties shall ensure that technical regulations and standards are not prepared, adopted or applied with a view to creating obstacles the international trade or to protect domestic production. Furthermore, each Party shall accord products imported from the territory of the

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