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Paragraph 12 Direct transport

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1.

The preferential treatment provided for under the relevant Agreement shall apply only to products satisfying the requirements of this Convention which are transported directly between or through the territories of the Contracting Parties with which cumulation is applicable in accordance with Article 3. However, products constituting one single consignment may be transported through other territories with, should the occasion arise, trans-shipment or temporary warehousing in such territories, provided that they remain under the surveillance of the customs authorities in the country of transit or warehousing and do not undergo operations other than unloading, reloading or any operation designed to preserve them in good condition.

Originating products may be transported by pipeline across territory other than that of the Contracting Parties acting as exporting and importing parties.

2.

Evidence that the conditions set out in paragraph 1 have been fulfilled shall be supplied to the customs authorities of the importing Contracting Party by the production of:

(a)

a single transport document covering the passage from the exporting Contracting Party through the country of transit; or

(b)

a certificate issued by the customs authorities of the country of transit:

  1. (i)

    giving an exact description of the products;

  2. (ii)

    stating the dates of unloading and reloading of the products and, where applicable, the names of the ships, or the other means of transport used; and

  3. (iii)

    certifying the conditions under which the products remained in the transit country; or

(c)

failing these, any substantiating documents.