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 62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 CHAPTER III. Allocation of Air Surcharges. Transportation Charges. ARTICLE 13. Allocation of surcharges. Each Administration retains the whole of the air surcharges which it has collected. ARTICLE 14. Air-transportationchargesfor closed mails. 1. The provisions of Article 67 of the Convention concerning transit charges apply to air-mail correspondence only for its transmission, if any, by land or sea. 2. The air-transportation charges for air-mail articles sent in closed dispatches are collectible from the Administration of the country of origin. 3. Every Administration which assures the transportation of air- mail correspondence by the air route, as intermediate Administra- tion, is entitled, on that account, to payment of transportation charges. Such charges are computed in accordance with the actual length of the routes over which the dispatch or the articles have been carried. If the plane stops at several airports, the payment is due as far as the airport where the unloading takes place. 4. Transportation charges must also be paid for transportation within the country of destination. The payments must be uniform for all the routes traversed in the domestic service; they are computed in accordance with the average length of all the routes traversed in the domestic service and their importance for the international service. 5. The transportation charges relative to one and the same air route are uniform for all Administrations using that service without participating in the operating costs. 6. With the exceptions provided for in Sections 7 and 8 following, the air-transportation charges are payable to the Postal Administra- tion of the country in which the airport where the dispatches have been taken in charge by the air service is located. 7. An Administration which delivers to an air-transport enterprise mails intended for conveyance by several separate air services in succession may, if it has so agreed with the intermediate Admin- istrations, settle directly with that enterprise for the transporta- tion charges for the whole route. The intermediate Administrations, for their part, have the right to request the application pure and simple of the provisions of Section 6. 8. By exception to the provisions of Sections 6 and 7, every Administration maintaining an air service is entitled to collect directly from each Administration utilizing such service the transportation charges for the whole route. 9. The basic rates to be applied in the settlement of accounts between Administrations for air transportation are fixed per gross kilogram and per kilometer as follows: Ante, p. 3333. Intermediate Ad- ministrations; trans- portation charges. Internal transporta- tion charges. Uniform charges. Administration to which charges are pay- able. Direct settlements. Basic rates. 3407

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