The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-01
NO. 10.

of the contracting parties into the dominious and
tend to the importation of the like articles, be-
ing the produce or manufacture OF any other
country
hereinafter excepted, he will not prohibit the
importation into his dominions and possessions
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arriving; and that the duties to be imposed on
every article the produce or manufacture OF the
United States of America imported into the en-
pire and possessions of His Imperial Majesty the
Sultan, shall in no case exceed one fixed rate of
eight per cent ad valorem, or specific duty,
Such rate shall be calculated upon the value of
such articles at the wharf, and shall be payable at
the time of their being landed if brought by sea,
or at the first custom-house they may reach, If
brought by land.
If these articles, after having paid the import
duty of eight per cent are sold either at the place
of their arrival in the interior of the country,
neither the buyer nor the seller shall be charged
with any further duty in respect to them; and if
such articles should be not be sold for consump-
ton in the Ottoman empire, but should be reex-
ported within the space of six months, the same
shall be considered merchandise in transit by
land and be treated as it stated hereinafter in Ar
ticle XII. of his treaty; the administration Of
of their reexportation, to the merchant who shall
be required to furnish proof that the goods In
question have paid the import duty of eight per
cent, the difference between that duty and the
duty levied goods in transit by land, as set
forth in the article above cited
ARTICCE vi. 1t is understood that any article
the produce or manufacture of foreign country
intended for importation into the United Princi-
paities of Moldo- Wallachia, or into the principa
lity of Servia, which shall pass through any other
part of the Ottoman empire, will not be liable to
the payment of customs duty until it reaches
those prncipalities; and, on the other hand, that
any article of foreign produce manufacture
passig through those principalities, but destined
for some other part of the Ottoman empire will
not be liable to the payment of customs duty un-
til such article reaches the first custom-house un-
der the direct administration of the Sublame
Porte.
to any article the produce or manufacture OF
those principaities, well with respect to any
article the produce or manufacture of any other
portation such articles will be liable to the pay
ment of customs duties-the former to the Gus
tom-house or the aforesaid prineipalties, and the
latter to the Ottoman stom-housc; the object
being that neither import nor export duties shall
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contracting parties shall enjoy, in the domnions
and possessions of the other equality of treat
ment with native subjects or citizens in regard to
warehousing and also in regard to bounties, faci-
lties, and drawbacks.
ARTICLE VIII. All articles which are or may
be, legally importable into the United States of
America, in vessels of the United States, may
likewise be imported in Ottoman vessels without
being liable to any other or higher duties or char
ges, of whatever denomination, than if such arti-
cles imported in vessels of the United States;
and, reciprocally, all articles which are or may
be legally importablc into dominions and posses
sions of his imperial majesty the Sultan in Otto
man vessels, may likewise be imported in vessels
of the United States without being liable to any
other or higher duties or charges, ofwhatever de-
nomination, than if such article were imported
in. Ottoman vessels: Such reciprocal equality of
treatment shall take effect without distinction,
whether such articles come directly from the
place of origin or from any other country. In the
same manner there shall be perfect equality of
treatment in regard to expectation, SO that the
same export duties shall be paid, and the same
bounties and draw backs allowed in the dominions
ties on the expectation of sny article which is,
may be, legally cXportable theretrom, whether
such expectation shall take place in Ottoman or
in vessels of the United States, and whatever may
be the place of destination, whether port of eth
er of the contracting parties, or OF any third
power.
ARTICLE TX. No duties of tonnage, harbor,
pilotage, lighthouse quarantine, other similar
or corresponding duties of whatever nature, or
under whatever denomination, levied in the name
for the profit of government, public functiona-
ries, private individuals, corporations, estab-
lishments of any kind, shall be imposed in the
ports of the dominions and possessions of either
country upon the vessels of the other country
which shall not equally, and under the same con-
dtions, be imposed in the like cases on national
Such equality of treatment shall apply rccipro-
cally to the respective vessels, from whatever
port or place they may arrive and whatever may
be their place of destination.
ARTICLE x. All vessels, which, according to
the laws of the United Ltates, to be deemed
vessels of the United States and all vessels which,
according to Ottoman laws, are to. be deemed OF
toman vessels SHALL for the purposes Of this trea;
ty, be deemed vessels of the United Stales and
Ottoman vessels, respectively.
ARTICLE XII No charge whatsoever shall be
made upon goods of the United States, being the
produce or manufacture of the United States of
America, whether in vessels of tine United States,
or other vessels, nor upon any goods the produce
or manufacture OF any other foreign country car
ried in vessels of the United States, when the
same shall pass through the Straits of Dardanel-
les, or OF the Bosphorus, whether such goods shall
pass through those straits in the vessels that
brought them, or shall have been transhipped Ito
other vessels; or whether, after having been sold
for expectation, they shall, for certain limited
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vessels for the continuance of their voyage. In
the latter the goods in question shall be de-
posted at ConStantlnOple in the magazine OF the
custom-house, called transit magazines and in
any other places where there is no entrepot, they
shall be placed under the charge of the admins
ARTICLE XII. The Sublime Porte, desiring
to grant, by means of gradual concessions, all ia
cfties in it's power transit by land it is stipu-
lated and agreed that the duty of three per cent.
levied up to this time on articles imported into
the Ottoman empire, in their passage through
the Ottoman empire to other countries, shall be
reduced to two per cent. payable the duty of
three per cent has been paid hitherto, on arriv-
ing in the Ottoman dominion; and at the end of
eight years, to be reekoned from the day of the
exchange of the ratcations of the present treaty,
to fixed and definite tax of one per cent, which
shall be Levied as is to be the case with respect
to Ottoman produce exported, to defray the ex-
pense of registration.
The Sublime Porte, at the same time, declares
that it reserves to itself the right to establish, by
special enactment, the measures to be adopted
for the prevention of fraud. -.
of America, or their agents, trading in goods the
produce or manufacture of foreign Countries shall
be subject to the same taxes, and enjoy the same
rights, privileges, and immunities, as foreign spb-
jects dealing in goods the produce or manufacture
of their own country.
ARTICLE; XIV. An exception to the stip4ia-
tions laid down in the With Article shall be made
in regard to tobacco in any shape whatsoever,
and also in regard to salt, which two shall
cease to be included among those which the
citizens of the United States of America are
permitted to import into the Ottoman domi-
Mons. -
Citizens of the United States, however, or their
agents, buying or selling tobacco or salt for con
sumption in the Ottoman empire, shall be sub
ject to the same regulations and shall the Same
duties as the most favored Ottoman subjects trad
ing in the two articles aforesaid; and further
more, a compensation for the prohibition of
the two articles above mentioned, no duty what
soever shall in future be levied on those articles
when exported from the Ottoman empire by eiti-
zens of the United States.
Citizens of the United States shall, neverthe-
less, be bound to declare the quantity of tobacco
and salt thus exported to the proper custom
house authorities, who shall, as heretofore, have
the right to watch over the export of these arti-
cles, without thereby being entitled to levy any