Division 13 Recommended practice

Relief from import duties and taxes or from customs duties only, as appropriate, should be granted for goods specified in the following international instruments and under the conditions laid down therein:

1. (a)

   goods referred to in the Annexes to the Unesco Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials (New York, 22 November 1950) and to the Protocol thereto (Nairobi, 26 November 1976) as well as in the Unesco Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character (Beirut, 1948);

2. (b)

   equipment or material referred to in Recommended practices 4.39 and 4.41 of Annex 9 (7th edition) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago, 7 December 1944);

3. (c)

   commercial samples of negligible value and advertising material referred to in the International Convention to Facilitate the Importation of Commercial Samples and Advertising Material (Geneva, 7 November 1952);

4. (d)

   tourist publicity documents and material referred to in the Additional Protocol to the Convention Concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, Relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material (New York, 4 June 1954);

5. (e)

   products referred to in Articles 6 and 7 of the Customs Convention Concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Fairs, Meetings or Similar Events (Brussels, 8 June 1961); and

6. (f)

   goods imported under diplomatic or consular privileges as referred to in the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations (18 April 1961) and Consular Relations (24 April 1963).

Contracting parties are invited to consider the possibility of acceding to the above international instruments.