Canadian Treaty Series

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CONVENTION OF COMMERCE BETWEEN CANADA AND THE NETHERLANDS

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, being desirous of im­proving and extending the commercial relations between the Netherlands and Canada, have resolved to conclude a convention with that object and have named as their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:

The Honourable James Alexander Robb, a Member of His Majesty's Honourable Privy Council for Canada, a Member of the Parliament of Canada, Acting Minister of Finance and Receiver General of Canada;

The Honourable Thomas Andrew Low, a Member of His Majesty's Honourable Privy Council for Canada, a Member of the Parliament of Canada, Minister of Trade and Commerce of Canada;

And Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:

Monsieur Theodore Herman de Meester, Consul General of the Netherlands in Montreal;

Who after communicating to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ARTICLE 1

Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada imported into the Netherlands and articles the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands imported into Canada shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or restriction be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article the produce or manufacture of Canada into the Netherlands, or of any articles the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands into Canada, which shall not equally extend to the importation of like articles being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. This last provision is not applicable to the sanitary and other prohibitions occasioned by the necessity of protecting the safety of persons or of cattle or of plants useful to agriculture.

ARTICLE 2

Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada exported to the Netherlands and articles the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands exported to Canada shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles exported to any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or restriction be imposed on the exportation of any article from Canada to the Netherlands or from the Netherlands to Canada which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country.

ARTICLE 3

Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada passing in trans­it through the Netherlands and articles the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands passing in transit through Canada shall be reciprocally free from all transit duties whether they pass through direct or whether during transit they are unloaded, warehoused or reloaded.

ARTICLE 4

It is understood that in all matters governing the import, ex­port and transit of merchandise the Netherlands grants to Canada and Canada grants to the Netherlands the treatment of the most favoured nation.

ARTICLE 5

The name “Netherlands" wherever used in this convention shall be held to include the Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curaçao.

The present convention, after being approved by the Parliament of Canada and by the competent authority on the part of the Netherlands, shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Ottawa as soon as possible. It shall come into force immediately upon the exchange of ratifications, and shall be binding upon the contracting parties during four years from the date of its coming into force. In case neither of the contracting parties shall have given notice to the other twelve months before the expiration of the said period of four years of its intention to terminate the present convention, it shall remain in tone until the expiration of one year from the date on which either of the contracting parties shall have given to the other notice of its intention to terminate it.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this convention in the English and the French languages, and have affixed thereto their seals.

DONE at Ottawa, this 11th day of July in the year 1924.

James Alexander Robb
Thomas Andrew Low
Théodore Herman de Meester