1Trade Agreement (Belgium) Act 1936

TRADE AGREEMENT (BELGIUM).

No. 57 of 1936.

An Act to approve a Provisional Commercial Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of Belgium and Undertakings given in relation to that Agreement.

[Assented to 23rd November, 1936.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows :—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Trade Agreement (Belgium) Act 1936.

Approval of Agreement and undertakings.

2. The Provisional Commercial Agreement made between His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of Belgium acting on its own behalf and on behalf of the Government of Luxemburg, a copy of which Agreement is set forth in the First Schedule to this Act, and the undertakings contained in the correspondence annexed to the said Agreement, a copy of which correspondence is set forth in the Second Schedule to this Act, are hereby approved.

THE SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE. Sec. 2.

PROVISIONAL COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA AND THE BELGO-LUXEMBURG ECONOMIC UNION.

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of Belgium acting both on its own behalf and by virtue of existing agreements on behalf of the Government of Luxemburg, desiring to facilitate and extend still further the commercial relations between Australia, on the one part, and the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union, on the other part, have agreed as follows :—

Article I.

Articles, produced or manufactured in Australia, on their importation into the Customs Territory of the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union, and articles produced or manufactured in the Customs Territory of the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union, on their importation into Australia, shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles, the produce or manufacture of the most favoured foreign country.

Article II.

(1) Articles enumerated in Schedule ‘A’ to this Agreement, produced or manufactured in the Customs Territory of the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union, shall, on importation into Australia, be accorded the benefits of the Australian Intermediate Tariff.

(2) Articles enumerated in Schedule ‘B’ to this Agreement, being the produce or manufacture of the Customs Territory of the Belgo-Luxemburg Economic Union, shall not, on importation into Australia, be subjected to a higher duty than that specified in the said Schedule.

(3) The stipulations of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article shall not be deemed to exempt the said articles from liability to sales tax or, except as provided in paragraph (4), from payment of primage duties.