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ARTICLES

LEGAL RESOURSES

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    • Article 305. Temporary Admission of Goods

    1. Each Party shall grant duty-free temporary admission for:

  • Professional equipment necessary for carrying out the business activity, trade or profession of a business person who qualifies for temporary entry pursuant to Chapter Sixteen (Temporary Entry for Business Persons),

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  • Equipment for the press or for sound or television broadcasting and cinematographic equipment,

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  • Goods imported for sports purposes and goods intended for display or demonstration, and

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  • Commercial samples and advertising films, imported from the territory of another Party, regardless of their origin and regardless of whether like, directly competitive or substitutable goods are available in the territory of the Party.

    • 2. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, no Party may condition the duty-free temporary admission of a good referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) or (c), other than to require that such good:

  • Be imported by a national or resident of another Party who seeks temporary entry;

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  • Be used solely by or under the personal supervision of such person in the exercise of the business activity, trade or profession of that person;

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  • Not be sold or leased while in its territory;

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  • Be accompanied by a bond in an amount no greater than 110 percent of the charges that would otherwise be owed on entry or final importation, or by another form of security, releasable on exportation of the good, except that a bond for customs duties shall not be required for an originating good;

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  • Be capable of identification when exported;

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  • Be exported on the departure of that person or within such other period of time as is reasonably related to the purpose of the temporary admission; and

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  • Be imported in no greater quantity than is reasonable for its intended use.

    • 3. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, no Party may condition the duty-free temporary admission of a good referred to in paragraph 1(d), other than to require that such good:

  • Be imported solely for the solicitation of orders for goods, or services provided from the territory, of another Party or non-Party;

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  • Not be sold, leased or put to any use other than exhibition or demonstration while in its territory;

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  • Be capable of identification when exported;

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  • Be exported within such period as is reasonably related to the purpose of the temporary admission; and

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  • Be imported in no greater quantity than is reasonable for its intended use.

    • 4. A Party may impose the customs duty and any other charge on a good temporarily admitted duty-free under paragraph 1 that would be owed on entry or final importation of such good if any condition that the Party imposes under paragraph 2 or 3 has not been fulfilled.

    5. Subject to Chapters Eleven (Investment) and Twelve (Cross Border Trade in Services):

  • Each Party shall allow a vehicle or container used in international traffic that enters its territory from the territory of another Party to exit its territory on any route that is reasonably related to the economic and prompt departure of such vehicle or container;

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  • No Party may require any bond or impose any penalty or charge solely by reason of any difference between the port of entry and the port of departure of a vehicle or container;

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  • No Party may condition the release of any obligation, including any bond, that it imposes in respect of the entry of a vehicle or container into its territory on its exit through any particular port of departure; and

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  • No Party may require that the vehicle or carrier bringing a container from the territory of another Party into its territory be the same vehicle or carrier that takes such container to the territory of another Party.

    • 6. For purposes of paragraph 5, "vehicle" means a truck, a truck tractor, tractor, trailer unit or trailer, a locomotive, or a railway car or other railroad equipment.