Common use of National treatment on internal taxation Clause in Contracts

National treatment on internal taxation. and regulation 1. Imported products originating in the other Party shall not be subject, either directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like national products. Moreover, the Parties shall not otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges so as to afford protection to national production. 2. Imported products originating in the other Party shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like national products in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the application of differential internal transportation charges which are based exclusively on the economic operation of the means of transport and not on the nationality of the product. 3. No Party shall establish or maintain any internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions which requires, directly or indirectly, that any specified amount or proportion of any product which is the subject of the regulation must be supplied from domestic sources. Moreover, no Party shall otherwise apply internal quantitative regulations so as to afford protection to national production. 4. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent the payment of subsidies exclusively to national producers, including payments to national producers derived from the proceeds of internal taxes or charges applied consistently with the provisions of this Article and subsidies effected through governmental purchases of national products or for their benefit. 5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement. 1 For this calculation official data by the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-EU trade) shall be used. 6. The provisions of this Article are without prejudice of the provisions of the Chapter of this Agreement on trade defence instruments.

National treatment on internal taxation. and regulation 1. Imported products originating in the other Party shall not be subject, either directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like national products. Moreover, the Parties shall not otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges so as to afford protection to national production. 2. Imported products originating in the other Party shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like national products in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the application of differential internal transportation charges which are based exclusively on the economic operation of the means of transport and not on the nationality of the product. 3. No Party shall establish or maintain any internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions which requires, directly or indirectly, that any specified amount or proportion of any product which is the subject of the regulation must be supplied from domestic sources. Moreover, no Party shall otherwise apply internal quantitative regulations so as to afford protection to national production. 4. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent the payment of subsidies exclusively to national producers, including payments to national producers derived from the proceeds of internal taxes or charges applied consistently with the provisions of this Article and subsidies effected through governmental purchases of national products or for their benefit. 5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement. 1 For this calculation official data by the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-EU trade) shall be used. 5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement. 6. The provisions of this Article are without prejudice of the provisions of the Chapter of this Agreement on trade defence instruments.

National treatment on internal taxation. and regulation 1. Imported products originating in the other Party Originating imports shall not be subject, either directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like national domestic products. Moreover, the Parties and the Signatory CARIFORUM States shall not otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges so as to afford protection to national productionlike domestic products. 2. Imported products originating in the other Party Originating imports shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like national domestic products in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the application of differential internal transportation charges which are based exclusively on the economic operation of the means of transport and not on the nationality of the product. 3. No Party or Signatory CARIFORUM State shall establish or maintain any internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions which requires, directly or indirectly, that any specified amount or proportion of any product which is the subject of the regulation must be supplied from domestic sources. Moreover, no Party or Signatory CARIFORUM State shall otherwise apply internal quantitative regulations so as to afford protection to national domestic production. 4. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent the payment of subsidies exclusively to national producers, including payments to national producers derived from the proceeds of internal taxes or charges applied consistently with the provisions of this Article and subsidies effected through governmental purchases of national products or for their benefitdomestic products. 5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement. 1 For this calculation official data by the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-EU trade) , which shall be usedsubject exclusively to the provisions of Chapter 3 of Title IV. 6. The provisions of this Article are shall be without prejudice of to the provisions of the Chapter of this Agreement on trade defence instrumentsArticle 23.

National treatment on internal taxation. and regulation 1. The Parties recognise that internal taxes and other internal charges, and laws, regulations and requirements affecting the internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use of products, and internal quantitative regulations requiring the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions, should not be applied to imported or domestic products so as to afford protection to domestic production. 2. Imported products originating in the other Party shall not be subject, either directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like national domestic products. Moreover, the Parties shall not otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges so as to afford protection imported or domestic products in a manner contrary to national productionthe principles set forth in paragraph 1 (1). 23. Imported products originating in the other Party shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like domestic products of national products origin in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the application of differential internal transportation charges which are based exclusively on the economic operation of the means of transport and not on the nationality of the product. 3(1) A tax conforming to the requirements of the first sentence of this paragraph would be considered to be inconsistent with the provisions of its second sentence only in cases where competition was involved between, on the one hand, the taxed product and, on the other hand, a directly competitive or substitutable product which was not similarly taxed. 4. No Party The Parties shall not establish or maintain any internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions which requires, directly or indirectly, that any specified amount or proportion of any product which is the subject of the regulation must be supplied from domestic sources. Moreover, no Party Parties shall not otherwise apply internal quantitative regulations so in a manner contrary to the principles set forth in paragraph 1. 5. No internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions shall be applied in such a manner as to afford protection to national productionallocate any such amount or proportion among external sources of supply. 46. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations or requirements governing the procurement by governmental agencies of products purchased for governmental purposes and not with a view to commercial resale or with a view to use in the production of goods for commercial sale. 7. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent the payment of subsidies exclusively to national domestic producers, including payments to national producers derived from the proceeds of internal taxes or charges applied consistently with the provisions of this Article and subsidies effected through governmental purchases of national products or for their benefitdomestic products. 58. The Parties recognise that internal maximum price control measures, even though conforming to the other provisions of this Article, can have effects prejudicial to the interests of Parties supplying imported products. Accordingly, Parties applying such measures shall take account of the interests of exporting Parties with a view to avoiding to the fullest practicable extent such prejudicial effects. 9. The provisions of this Article shall not apply prevent any Party from establishing or maintaining internal quantitative regulations relating to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement. 1 For this calculation official data by exposed cinematograph films and meeting the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-EU trade) shall be used. 6. The provisions requirements of this Article are without prejudice IV of the provisions of the Chapter of this Agreement on trade defence instrumentsGATT 1947.

National treatment on internal taxation. and regulationAnd Regulation(1) 1. Imported products originating in of the territory of the other Party shall not be subject, either directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like national domestic products. Moreover, the Parties shall not otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges so as to afford protection to national domestic production. 2. Imported products originating in of the territory of the other Party shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like national domestic products in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the application of differential internal transportation charges which are based exclusively on the economic operation of the means of transport and not on the nationality of the product. 3. No Neither Party shall establish or maintain any internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions which requires, directly or indirectly, that any specified amount or proportion of any product which is the subject of the regulation must be supplied from domestic sources. Moreover, no neither Party shall otherwise apply internal quantitative regulations so as to afford protection to national domestic production. 4. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent the payment of subsidies exclusively to national domestic producers, including payments to national domestic producers derived from the proceeds of internal taxes or charges applied consistently with the provisions of this Article and subsidies effected through governmental purchases of national products or for their benefitdomestic products. 5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement, which shall be subject exclusively to the provisions of Title IV of this Part. 1 For this calculation official data by (1) Any internal tax or other internal charge, or any law, regulation of requirement of the WTO on leading exporters kind referred to in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-EU trade) shall paragraph 2 which applies to an imported product and to the like domestic product and is collected or enforced in the case of the imported product at the time or point of importation, is nevertheless to be used. 6. The regarded as an internal tax or other internal charge, or a law, regulation or requirement of the kind referred to in paragraph 2, and is accordingly subject to the provisions of this Article are without prejudice Article. (2) A tax conforming to the requirements of the first sentence shall be considered inconsistent with the provisions of the Chapter second sentence only in cases where competition is involved between, on the one hand, a taxed product and, on the other hand, a directly competitive or substitutable product which is not similarly taxed. (3) Regulations consistent with the provisions of this Agreement the first sentence shall not be considered to be contrary to the provisions of the second sentence in any case in which all of the products subject to the regulations are produced domestically in substantial quantities. A regulation cannot be justified as being consistent with the provisions of the second sentence on trade defence instrumentsthe ground that the proportion or amount allocated to each of the products which are the subject of the regulation constitutes an equitable relationship between imported and domestic products.

National treatment on internal taxation. and regulation 1. Imported products originating in the other Party shall not be subject, either directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like national products. Moreover, the Parties shall not otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges so as to afford protection to national production. 2. Imported products originating in the other Party shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like national products in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the application of differential internal transportation charges which are based exclusively on the economic operation of the means of transport and not on the nationality of the product. 3. No Party shall establish or maintain any internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions which requires, directly or indirectly, that any specified amount or proportion of any product which is the subject of the regulation must be supplied from domestic sources. Moreover, no Party shall otherwise apply internal quantitative regulations so as to afford protection to national production. 4. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent the payment of subsidies exclusively to national producers, including payments to national producers derived from the proceeds of internal taxes or charges applied consistently with the provisions of this Article and subsidies effected through governmental purchases of national products or for their benefit. 5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement. 1 For this calculation official data by the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-EU trade) shall be used. 6. The provisions of this Article are without prejudice of the provisions of the Chapter of this Agreement on trade defence instruments.

National treatment on internal taxation. and regulation 1. Imported products originating in the other Party shall not be subject, either directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like national products. Moreover, the Parties shall not otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges so as to afford protection to national production. 2. Imported products originating in the other Party shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like national products in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use. The provisions of this paragraph shall not prevent the application of differential internal transportation charges which are based exclusively on the economic operation of the means of transport and not on the nationality of the product. 3. No Party shall establish or maintain any internal quantitative regulation relating to the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions which requires, directly or indirectly, that any specified amount or proportion of any product which is the subject of the regulation must be supplied from domestic sources. Moreover, no Party shall otherwise apply internal quantitative regulations so as to afford protection to national production. 4. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent the payment of subsidies exclusively to national producers, including payments to national producers derived from the proceeds of internal taxes or charges applied consistently with the provisions of this Article and subsidies effected through governmental purchases of national products or for their benefitproducts. 5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to laws, regulations, procedures or practices governing public procurement. 1 For this calculation official data by the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-EU trade) shall be used. 6. The EPA Committee may decide to authorise a Signatory ESA State to depart from the provisions of this Article to promote the establishment of domestic production and protect infant industry. In this respect the development needs of Signatory ESA States and, in particular, the special needs and concerns of ESA LDCs will be taken into account. 7. A list of provisional derogations is attached as Xxxxx XXX. Such derogations are without prejudice granted to the interested Signatory ESA States for the periods of time which are set out in the provisions of the Chapter of this Agreement on trade defence instrumentssame Annex.