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 1566 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [55 STAT. (2) If the status of any person within the Territory and admitted thereto under the foregoing paragraph shall be altered so that he would no longer be entitled to such admission, the United States Authorities shall notify the Government of the Territory and shall, if such person be required to leave the Territory by that Government, be responsible for providing him with a passage from the Territory within a reasonable time, and shall in the meantime prevent his becoming a public responsibility of the Territory. ARTICLE XIV. Customs and other Duties. (1) No import, excise, consumption or other tax, duty or impost shall be charged on- (a) material, equipment, supplies or goods for use in the construc- tion, maintenance, operation or defence of the Bases, consigned to, or destined for, the United States Authori- ties or a contractor; (b) goods for use or consumption aboard United States public vessels of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard or Coast and Geodetic Surveys; (c) goods consigned to the United States Authorities for the use of institutions under Government control known as Post Exchanges, Ships' Service Stores, Commissary Stores or Service Clubs, or for sale thereat to members of the United States forces, or civilian employees of the United States being nationals of the United States and employed in connection with the Bases, or members of their families resident with them and not engaged in any business or occupation in the Territory; (d) the personal belongings or household effects of persons referred to in sub-paragraph (c), and of contractors and their employees being nationals of the United States employed in the construction, maintenance or operation of the Bases and present in the Territory by reason only of such employment. (2) No export tax shall be charged on the material, equipment, supplies or goods mentioned in paragraph (1) in the event of re- shipment from the Territory. (3) This Article shall apply notwithstanding that the material, equipment, supplies or goods pass through other parts of the Terri- tory en route to or from a Leased Area. (4) Administrative measures shall be taken by the United States Authorities to prevent the resale of goods which are sold under paragraph (1) (c), or imported under paragraph (1) (d), of this Article, to persons not entitled to buy goods at such Post Exchanges, Ships' Service Stores, Commissary Stores or Service Clubs, or not entitled to free importation under paragraph (1) (d); and generally

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