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 63 STAT.] CHINA-FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, NAVIGATION-NOV. 4, 1946 ARTICLE XIV 1. The nationals of each High Contracting Party shall be exempt from compulsory military or naval training or service under the juris- diction of the other High Contracting Party, and shall also be exempt from all contributions in money or in kind imposed in lieu thereof. 2. During any period of time when both of the High Contracting Parties are, through military or naval action in connection with which there is general compulsory military or naval service, (a) enforcing measures against the same third country or countries in pursuance of obligations for the maintenance of international peace and secu- rity, or (b) concurrently conducting hostilities against the same third country or countries, provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply. However, in such an event the nationals of either High Contracting Party in the territory of the other High Contracting Party, who have not declared their intention to acquire the national- ity of such other High Contracting Party, shall be exempt from mili- tary or naval service under the jurisdiction of such other High Con- tracting Party if within a reasonable time prior to their induction for such service they elect, in lieu of such service, to enter the military or naval service of the High Contracting Party of which they are na- tionals. In any such situation the High Contracting Parties will make the necessary arrangements for giving effect to the provisions of this paragraph. 3. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to affect the right of either High Contracting Party to debar from acquiring its citizen- ship any person who seeks and obtains exemption in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 or 2 of this Article. ARTICLE XV The High Contracting Parties reaffirm their adherence to a pro- gram of purposes and policies, open to participation by all other coun- tries of like mind, designed to bring about an expansion of interna- tional trade on a broad basis, and directed to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment and monopolistic restrictions in international commerce. ARTICrL XVI 1. In all matters relating to (a) customs duties and subsidiary charges of every kind imposed on imports or exports and the method of levying such duties and charges, (b) the rules, formalities, and charges imposed in connection with the clearing of articles through the customs, and (c) the taxation, sale, distribution or use within the country of imported articles and of articles intended for exportation, each High Contracting Party shall accord to articles the growth, prod- uce or manufacture of the other High Contracting Party, from what- ever place arriving, or to articles destined for exportation to the ter- ritories of such other High Contracting Party, by whatever route, treatment no less favorable than the treatment which is or may here- Exemption from military service. Post, pp. 1393, 1398. Duties, etc.. most- favored-nation treat- ment. 1311

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