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 105 STAT. 2610 PROCLAMATION 6308—JUNE 24, 1991 2. Each Party shall provide nationals, companies and organizations of the other Party with access to available non-confidential, non-proprietary data on the national economy and individual sectors, including information on foreign trade. 3. Each Party shall allow the other Party the opportunity to comment on the formulation of rules and regulations which affect the conduct of business activities. Article VIII.—Financial Provisions Relating to Trade in Products and Services ' 1. Unless otherwise agreed between the parties to individual transactions, all commercial transactions between nationals, companies and organizations of the Parties shall be made in United States dollars or any other currency that may be designated from time to time by the International Monetary Fund as being a freely usable currency. 2. Neither Party shall restrict the export from its territory of convertible currencies or deposits, or instruments representative thereof, obtained in connection with trade in products and services by nationals, companies and organizations of the other Party. 3. Nationals, companies and organizations of a Party holding currency of the other Party received in an authorized manner may deposit such currency in financial institutions located in the territory of the other Party and may maintain and use such currency for local expenses. 4. Without derogation from paragraphs 2 or 3 of this Article, in connection with trade in products and services, each Party shall grant to nationals, companies and organizations of the other Party the better of most-favored-nation or national treatment with respect to: (a) opening and maintaining accounts, in both local and foreign currency, and having access to fluids deposited, in financial institutions located in the territory of the Party; (b) payments, remittances and transfers of convertible currencies, or financial instruments representative thereof, between the territories of the two Parties, as well as between the territory of that Party and that of any third country; (c) rates of exchange and related matters, including access to freely usable ciurencies, such as through currency auctions; and (d) the receipt and use of local ciurency. Article IX.—Protection of Intellectual Property Rights 1. Each Party shall provide adequate and effective protection and enforcement for patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, industrial designs and layout designs for integrated circuits. Each Party reaffirms its commitments to those international agreements relating to intellectual property to which both Parties are signatories. Specifically, each Party reaffirms the commitments made with respect to industrial prop-

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