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 54 STAT.] IRAQ-COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION-DEC. 3, 1938 1791 cial traveler's samples, the United States of America will accord to Iraq and Iraq will accord to the United States of America, its terri- tories and possessions, unconditional most-favored-nation treatment. Therefore, no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the im- portation into or the disposition in the United States of America, its territories or possessions, of any articles the growth, produce or manu- facture of Iraq than are or shall be payable on like articles the growth, produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Similarly, no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importa- tion into or the disposition in Iraq of any articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America, its territories or pos- sessions, than are or shall be payable on like articles the growth, produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Similarly, no higher or other duties shall be imposed in the United States of America, its territories or possessions, or in Iraq, on the exportation of any articles to the other or to any territory or posses- sion of the other, than are payable on the exportation of like articles to any other foreign country. Any advantage, of whatsoever kind, which either High Contracting Party may extend to any article, the growth, produce or manufacture of any other foreign country shall simultaneously and unconditionally, without request and without compensation, be extended to the like article the growth, produce or manufacture of the other High Con- tracting Party. The stipulations of this Treaty regarding the treatment to be ac- Exaptoan. corded by each High Contracting Party to the commerce of the other do not extend: (a) to the advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America, its territories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another or to the Republic of Cuba. The provisions of this paragraph shall continue to apply in respect of any advantages now or hereafter accorded by the United States of America, its territories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another, irrespective of any change in the political status of any of the territories or possessions of the United States of America; (b) to any advantages in customs matters which Iraq may grant to goods the produce or manufacture of Turkey, or of any country whose territory was in 1914 wholly included in the Ottoman Empire in Asia; (c) to any advantages which are, or may in the future be accorded by either Party to purely border traffic within a zone not exceeding ten miles (15 kilometres) wide on either side of the customs frontier; (d) to any advantages in customs matters which are, or may in the future be accorded to States in customs union with either High Con- tracting Party so long as such advantages are not accorded to any other State. Article II Having regard to the volume and nature of the trade between the t ni~o"sor two countries it is agreed that in all that concerns matters of pro- "iwrbt.

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