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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. TITLE VI. Provisions Concerning Transit Charges. CHAPTER I. Statistical Operations. ARTICLE 152. Transit statistics. Computation of 1. The transit charges collectible under Articles 67 and following transit charges. Ate,. 3333 . of the Convention are computed on the basis of statistics taken once every three years, and alternately during the first fourteen or twenty- eight days of the month of May or during the first fourteen or twenty- eight days following the 14th of October. 2. The statistics are taken during the second year of each triennial period. 3. Dispatches made up on board ships are included in the statistics when they are unloaded during the statistical period. 4. The payments of transit charges for the period from the month of September 1939 to December 31, 1948, shall be made on the basis of the actual weight of the mails conveyed according to the conditions fixed by special Agreements concluded between the countries con- cerned. The statistics of May 1949 shall apply to the years 1949 and 1950; those of October-November 1952, to the years 1951, 1952, and 1953. Provisional annual payments."' a 5. The annual payments of transit charges to be made on the basis of a set of statistics shall be continued provisionally, until the accounts made up in accordance with the following statistics are approved or Pot,p . 3385 . considered as automatically accepted (Article 161 hereafter). The adjustment of the payments made provisionally is undertaken at that time. Revision of tiansit- charge accountts. 6. When an important modification takes place in the routing of correspondence from one country to another, and if such modification affects a period or periods amounting to a total of at least twelve months, any Administration concerned may request a revision of the transit-charge accounts. In that case, the sums to be paid by the dispatching Administrations are determined in accordance with the intermediate services actually employed, but the total weights which serve as the basis for the new accounts shall normally be the same as those of the dispatches sent during the statistical period men- tioned in Sections 1 to 3. When an agreement as to the manner of division cannot be reached, special statistics shall be taken in order to adjust the apportionment of those weights among the various services employed. No modification in the routing of correspondence for a given country is considered as important unless it affects the accounts between the Administration of origin and the intermediate Administration concerned by more than 5,000 francs a year. If the modification exceeds that amount it has its effect on the accounts of the Administration of origin with the Administrations which have 3380

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