Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [‎5r] (10/482)

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shall lie solely with the organisation in question. Responsibility for these trans
actions shall not be attributable to the Government of the U.S.S.R., or its Com
mercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Iran, or other economic organisations of the U.S.S.R.
Commercial transactions concluded on the part of these organisations in
Iran shall be subject, failing any provision for arbitration in the document of
the transaction, to the jurisdiction of Iranian courts and Iranian law.
Article 8.
Iranian traders, craftsmen, and natural or legal persons who have acquired
legal personality under the laws of Iran, while pursuing their economic activities
in the territory of the U.S.S.R., whether directly or through the agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of persons
appointed by them, shall enjoy, in respect of their persons and property, and
within the limits of the conditions accorded by the laws of the U.o.S.R. for the
conduct of such activities, the rights accorded to the subjects and legal persons
of the most favoured nation.
The State economic organisations of the U.S.S.R., and other legal persons
of the Soviet, possessing legal personality under the laws of the U.S.S.R., as well
as natural persons who are Soviet subjects, while pursuing their economic activities
in the territory of Iran, shall enjoy, in respect of their persons and property,
and within the limits of the conditions accorded by the laws of Iran for the
conduct of such activities, the rights accorded to the subjects and legal persons
of the most favoured nation.
The subjects and legal persons of each of the high contracting parties shall
enjoy equal rights with the subjects and legal persons of the country itself to
have free recourse to courts of law of all degrees, for the purpose of filing
and defending suits; and in no case of this kind shall they enjoy less favourable
treatment than the subjects and legal persons of the most favoured nation. But
it is understood that none of the provisions of this treaty entitle the trading-
companies or other economic organisations of one of the high contracting parties
to demand the special privileges which the other party accords to companies whose
operations in its territory have been or will be regulated by some special deed
of concession.
Article 9.
( 1 ) The Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran and the economic
organisations of the Soviet are permitted, with due regard to the laws and
regulations concerning the foreign trade of Iran, to purchase freely and without
let or hindrance for export to the U.S.S.R. all kinds of Iranian goods other
than those whose export from Iran is the subject of a Government prohibition
applicable to all countries.
( 2 ) The U.S.S.R. has the right to import goods within the limits of quotas
to be fixed for each year of the validity of the Treaty of Commerce and Naviga
tion. A list of these goods, with the quota fixtures for each, shall be drawn up
each year by the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran and the Iranian
Ministry of Commerce.
For the first year of this treaty, the list shall be drawn up at the time of
signature, and for the subsequent years at the beginning of each Iranian financial
year.
In drawing up the lists for the subsequent years, at least that percentage
of the U.S.S.R.’s quotas relating to each of the (classes of) goods mentioned in
the general quota provided for for the first year shall be maintained.
The Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran may also include in the
list of goods, authorised by the Iranian Government to be imported during the
current financial year, other goods not mentioned in that list. The Commercial
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran and the Iranian Ministry of Commerce shall
fix the quantity of these goods, and the Iranian Ministry of Commerce shall
give favourable consideration to the proposals of the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of
the U.S.S.R. in this matter.
The quota for each class of import included in the list may in the course
of the year be increased by agreement between the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the
U.S.S.R. in Iran and the Iranian Ministry of Commerce.