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 562 TREATY WITH PORTUGAL. 1840. No other or produce or manufacture of the United States of America ; and no hlSl1°¥d¤li¢¤ iv higher or other duties shall be imposed on the 1mportation,1nto the
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Jag i facture of the kingdom and possessions of~Portugal, than such as are, or shall be, payable on the like article, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country. _ _ A11 pmhibi. Nor shall any prohibition he imposed on the importation or exporta- ¢i¤¤¤ l<> bv ze- tion of any article, the growth, produce or manufacture of the United "°'°l‘ States of America, or of the kingdom and possessions of Portugal, to or from, the ports of the said kingdom and possessions of Portugal, or of the said States, which shall not equally extend to all other foreign nations. no other or Nor shall any higher or other duties or charges be imposed, in either mg::' ds‘;%°:;° of the two countries, on the exportation of any articles to the United ,,,,,,,,1}:;,,,,,,,, States of America, or to the kingdom of Portugalprespectryely, than Gu:. such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other forei n countr . 9,,,,,;,,,, Pravided, hdwever, that nothing contained in this article shall be un derstood, or intended, to interfere with the stipulation entered into by the United States of America, for a special equivalent, in regard to French wines, in the convention made by the said States and France, on the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight _ hundred and thirty-one; which stipulation will expire, and cease to have eH'ect, in the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. ARTICLE IV. _Same duties on The same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties, deductions, or privileges allowed, on the importation, into the kingdom and possessions oféither p,,,,,y_ of Portugal, of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States of America, whether such importation shall be in vessels of the said States, or in Portuguese vessels; and, reciprocally, the same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties, deductions, or privileges allowed, on the importation, into the United States of America, of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the kingdom and possessions of Portugal, whether such importation shall be in Portuguese vessels, or in vessels of the said States. ARTICLE V. Favors granted It is agreed by the high contracting parties, that, whenever there may by either party be lawfully imported into all or any of the ports of the kingdom and
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mc com- ¤ mom the growth, produce, or manufacture of a country other than that to which the importing vessels shall belong, the same privilege shall immediately become common to vessels of the United States of America, with all the same rights and favors as may, in that respect, be granted to the most favored nation. And, reciprocally, in consideration thereof, Portuguese vessels shall, thereafter, enjoy, in the same respect, privileges, rights, and favors, to a correspondent extent, in the ports of the United States of America. ARTICLE VI. No i,;,,;,,,, 0,. All kinds of merchandise and articles of commerce, which may be other duties on lawfully exported or re-exported from the ports of either of the high %;‘gPm;;°::é contracting parties to any foreign country, in national vessels, may also mid by ,,,,,;,,m,] be exported or re-exported therefrom in vessels of the other party, revessels. spectively, without paying other or higher duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomination, than if the same merchandise or articles of commerce were exported or re-exported in national vessels.