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 CUSTOMS MATrERS-COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT-RUMANIA. treatment which the United States shall accord to the commerce of Rumania and which Rumania shall accord to the commerce of the United States, have signed this Provisional Agreement: ARTICLE I 2595 The nationals and enterprises having juridical personality, of m~n~iProcal 8lJ'lUIg8o each of the two countries, shall enjoy in the territory of the other for . their persons and for their property, the most-favored-nation treat- ment in everything concerning establishment, the exercise of their commerce or mdustry, as well as concerning taxes and other charges. The natural or manufactured products of each country, in every- thing concerning importation, exportation, warehousing, transpor- tation, transit, and in general all sorts of commercial operations, shall also enjoy in the territories of the other country the treatment accorded the most favored nation. Likewise, the vessels of each Navigation. country in everything concerning navigation in the ports and terri- torial waters of the other country, shall enjoy most-favored-nation treatment. Consequent~ each of the two High Contracting Parties under- Extending ad\'un' . d'. . t~es granted to any takes to exten to the other, Imme lately and WIthout compensatIOn, third power. every favor, privilege, or decrease in duties which it has already extended, or which it may in the future extend, in any of the respects mentioned, to any third Power. ARTICLE II The most-favored-nation treatment shall apply also to the amount Most-ravored-naqon dh11.f. d'dhd. 11 h treatment as to duties. an t eco ecbon0 Import utlesan ot er utles,aswe astot eetc. customs formalities and their application, to procedure, to the con- ditions of payment of customs duties and other duties, to the classi- fication of goods, to the interpretation of customs tariffs and to the methods of analysis of goods. ARTICLJ<~ III The High Contracting Parties will r('ciproeally grunt most-fa- eJrade restrictions, yored-nation treatment in the matter of prohibitions nnd restrictions of imports and exports. ARTICLE IV The most-favored-nation treatment is not applicahle in euses which concern: (a) Special favors which have been, or shall be granted to bor- dering countries to facilitate frontier traffic. (b) The special system of importation intended to facilitate the financial settlements arising from the war of 1914-1918. (c) The rights and privileges accorded or which shall be accorded in the future to one or more bordering states in economic or customs union with either contracting party. (d) The stipulations of this agreement do not extend to the treat- ment which is accorded by the United States to the commerce of Cuba under the provisions of the Commercial Convention concluded between the United States and Cuba on December 11, 1902, or the provisions of any other commercial convention which hereafter may be concluded between the United States and Cuba. Such stipula- tions, moreover, do not extend to the treatment which is accorded to the commerce between the United States and the Panama Canal Cases not inc'luded.