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 AIR NAVIGATION-GREAT BRITAIN. quarantine and (subject to the provisions of paragraph 6) customs. (ii) Subject to the provisions of the preceding sub-paragraph and to the laws and regulations therein specified, the carriage of passen- gers and the import or export of any goods which may lawfully be imported or exported will be permitted in United States aircraft into or out of the territories to which this Note applies; and (subject to the same proviso) such aircraft, their crews, passengers and cargoes shall enjoy in those territories the same privileges as and shall not, merely by reason of the nationality of the aircraft, be subjected to any other or higher duties or charges than those which are or may be imposed on British aircraft or the aircraft of the most favoured country not being part of the territories under His Majesty's Sover- eignty, suzerainty, protection or authority, engaged in international commerce, or on their crews, passengers or cargoes. 3721 5. The regulations (together with any subsequent alterations there- niTarmstroBot (talk)lationstoberur­ in) relative to air traffic in force in the territories to which this Note applies will be communicated to the Government of the United States. 6. The fuel retained on board United States aircraft arriving in or crIr~el retained on air· leaving any territory to which this Note applies shall be exempt from customs duty, even though the fuel so retained is used by the aircraft on a flight in that territory, provided that such flight is definitely part of a journey from or to a place outside that territory. 7. Aerodromes open to public air traffic in the territories to which ,Ae~romes open to L. S. aircraft. this Note applies will so far as they are under the control of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, be open to United States aircraft, which (subject to the same proviso) will also be entitled to the assistance of the meteorological, wireless, lighting and day and night signalling services at such aerodromes. Subject again to the same proviso, the scale of charges at such aerodromes for landing and accommodation will be the same for United States as for British aircraft. 8. (i) The term "air commerce" as used in the succeeding sub- fiTarmstroBot (talk) 18:49, 19 November 2014 (UTC)r commerce" d~ paragraph means (a) the navigation of aircraft from one place to another both within the same or different territories under His :Majes- ty's Sovereignty, suzerainty, protection or authority, in the conduct or in furtherance of a business, and (b) the commercial transport of passengers or goods between any two points both within such territories. (ii) Air commerce may, in the territories to which this Note applies, HeSl'rn ,tions. be reserved exclusively to British aircraft whether registered in those territories or elsewhere. Nevertheless United States aircraft may l'oints or call covered • " hy througb bills uf proceed from any aerodrome which they may be entitled to use 10 lading. those territories to any other such aerodrome for the purpose of taking on board or landing the whole or part of their cargoes or passengers, provided that such cargoes are covered by through bills of lading, and such passengers hold through tickets, issued respectively for a journey the starting place and end of which are not both points between which air commerce has been reserved; and such aircraft,