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 TREATY-LATVIA. APRIL 20,1928. 2645 c) To the customs preferences or other facilities of whatever nature to~:~=;:i: which are or may be granted by Latvia in favor of Estonia, Finland, Lithuania or Russia and/or to the special privileges resulting to States in customs or economic union with Latvia so long as such preferences, facilities or special privileges are not accorded to any other State. ARTICLE IX. The nationals and merchandise of each High Contracting Party EqualIty of Internal taxes,etc. within the territories of the other shall receive the same treatment as nationals and merchandise of the country with regard to internal taxes, transit duties, charges in respect to warehousing and other facilities and the amount of drawbacks and bounties. ARTICLE X. No duties of tonnage, harbor, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, or pi;:n:~e, cgoarhII:; other similar or corresponding duties or charges of whatever de~ be equal," , nomination, levied in the name or for the profit of the Government, POJ/, p. 26.52 . public functionaries1 private individuals, corporations or establish- ments of any kind shall be imposed in the ports of the territories of either country upon the vessels of the other, which shall not equally, under the same conditions, be imposed on national vessels. Such equality of treatment shall apply reciprocally to the vessels of the two countries respectively from whatever place they may arrive and whatever may be their place of destination. ARTICLE XI. Merchant vessels and other privately owned vessels under the flag va~8;=7eoo~: of either of the High Contracting Parties, and carrying the papers required by its national laws in proof of nationality shalf, both within the territorial waters of the other High Contracting Party and on the high seas, be deemed to be the vessels of the Party whose flag is flown. ARTICLE XII. Merchant vessels and other privately owned vessels under the flag at~:::~ts?f cargoes of either of the High Contracting Parties shall be J?ermitted to dis- POII,p.26.52. charge J?ortions of cargoes at any port open.to foreIgn commerce in the terrItories of the other High Contracting Party, and to proceed with the remaining portions of such cargoes to any other ports of the same territories open to foreign commerce, without paying other or higher tonnage dues or port charges in such cases than would be paId by national vessels III like circumstances, and they shall be permitted to load in like manner at different ports in the same. voyage outward provided however that the coasting trade and the towing Cossting trade, etc., , " •• exception. service of the United States and the Repubhc of LatVIa are exempt from the provisions of this Article and from the other provisions of this Treaty, and are to be regulated according to the laws of the United States and the Republic of Latvia, respectively, in relation thereto. It is agreed, however, that the nationals of either High Contracting Party shall within the territories of the other enjoy with respect to the coasting trade and the towing service the most favored nation treatment. . The provisions of this Treaty relating to the mutual concession of bJlJ?gprf~Je~h national treatment in matters of navigation do not apply to sj>ecial served. privileges reserved by either High Contracting Party for the fishing mdustry and for the national ship-building industry.

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