LEAGUE OF NATIONS - United Nations Treaty Collection

1931 League of Nations - Treaty Series. 87
Article XVIII.
If goods despatched by one of the two countries to the other are re-exported at the request
of the original consignor on the ground that they have not bee14 accepted by the consignee or for
any other reason, no export duty or supplementary charges shall be levied on re-exportation and
any duties or other supplementary charges already paid shall be reimbursed or shall not be
collected, on condition that the goods have remained until re-exportation under the control of
the Customs, railway or postal authorities and that re-exportation is effected within two months
from the date of importation without the goods having undergone any change in the meantime.
Article XIX.
Internal duties which are or may hereafter be imposed on whosesoever account on the
production, manufacture, distribution or consumption of an article in the territory of one of the
High Contracting Parties, shall under no pretext be levied on the goods of the other Party at a
higher rate or in a more burdensome manner than on similar goods of the country itself or, in the
absence of such goods, on those of the most favoured nation.
Article XX.
i. Each of the High Contracting Parties shall accord to the nationals of the other Contracting
Party on its territory effective protection against unfair competition and shall in this respect treat
such nationals in the same way as its own nationals.
2. Each of the High Contracting Parties undertakes to adopt all necessary measures for
suppressing in its territory the improper use of geographical appellations of origin, especially in
the case of wines, beers, mineral waters and mineral water products, provided that such appellations
are duly protected by the other Contracting Party and have been notified by it.
The said notification must in particular contain the relevant laws and regulations of the
country concerned and state that the appellation of origin in question is properly employed.
Geographical appellations of origin of either country are regarded as being improperly used
when they are applied to products to which the law of the country concerned does not permit
them to be applied.
3. Hops may not be placed on the market in Roumania as " Czechoslovak hops " or as
"Bohemian hops" (from Zatec, Roudnice, ftk or Dubd) or " Moravian hops" (from Trgice)
unless they are marked and accompanied by a verification certificate issued by one of the
Czechoslovak public marking offices in accordance with the legislative provisions regarding
appellationis of origin for hops in force in the Czechoslovak Republic. Such hops must also be sold
in their original packing, that is to say in the packing bearing the appellation of origin, stamp and
seal in accordance with the said Czechoslovak regulations.
4. The provisions contained in the present Article shall not apply to goods in transit.
Article XXI.
I. Merchants, manufacturers and other traders of one of the two Parties, who prove by the
production of a trader's identity card issued by the competent authorities of their own country
that they are legally entitled to carry on their trade or industry in that country and that they
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