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 TREATIES Fines and penalties. respect to such importations, shall as a general rule be applied to articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America already en route at the time of publication thereof in accordance with the preceding para- graph. However, if either High Contracting Party customarily exempts from such new or increased obligations articles entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during a period of thirty days after the date of such publication, such practice shall be considered full compliance by such High Contracting Party with this paragraph. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to administrative orders imposing antidumping or countervailing duties or relating to regulations for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health, or relating to public safety, or giving effect to judicial decisions. 3. Each High Contracting Party shall provide some administrative or judicial procedure under which the nationals, corporations and associations of the other High Contracting Party, and importers of articles the growth, produce or manufacture of such other High Contracting Party, shall be permitted to appeal against fines and penalties imposed upon them by the customs author- ities, confiscations by such authorities and rulings of such authorities on questions of customs classification and of valuation of articles for customs purposes. Greater than nominal penalties shall not be imposed by either High Contracting Party in connection with any importation by the nationals, corporations or associations of the other High Contracting Party, or in connection with the importation of articles the growth, produce or manufacture of such other High Contracting Party, because of errors in documentation which are obviously clerical in origin or with regard to which good faith can be established. 4. Each High Contracting Party will accord sympathetic consideration to such representations as the other High Contracting Party may make with respect to the operation or administration of import or export prohibitions or restrictions, quantitative regulations, customs regulations or formalities, or sanitary laws or regulations for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health. Article XVI Internal taxation, ale, distribution, etc. Poe, p. 2300. 1. Articles the growth, produce or manufacture of either High Contrac- ting Party, imported into the territories of the other High Contracting Party, shall be accorded treatment with respect to all matters affecting internal taxa- tion, or the sale, distribution or use within such territories, no less favorable than the treatment which is or may hereafter be accorded to like articles of national origin. 2. Articles grown, produced or manufactured within the territories of either High Contracting Party in whole or in part by nationals, corporations and associations of the other High Contracting Party, or by corporations and associations of the High Contracting Party within the territories of which such rticles are grown, produced or mamnfactured which ae controlled by nationals, 2278 [63 STAT.

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