Coll 30/18(1) 'Persian Gulf: Bahrein, Customs dues on goods in transit; attitude of Ibn Saud' [‎555r] (1114/1162)

TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY.
DRAFT CLAUSES RELATING TO PORTS, WATERWAYS AND
RAILWAYS.
Section I.—General Provisions.
Article I. Purke^ undertakes to grant freedom of transit through her territories
on the routes most convenient for international transit, either by rail, navigable
\\ a ei waj, or canal, to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, waggons and mails coming
loin 01 going to the tei ritories of any of the Allied and Associated Powers (whether
contiguous or not) ; for this purpose the crossing of territorial waters shall be allowed,
buck persons, goods, vessels, carriages, waggons and mails shall not be subjected to
any transit duty or to any undue delays or restrictions, and shall be entitled in Turkey
to national treatment as regards charges, facilities and all other matters.
< mods in tiansit shall be exempt from all Customs or other similar duties.
AH charges imposed on transport in transit shall be reasonable having regard to
the conditions of the traffic. No charge, facility, or restriction shall depend directly
01 iikiii ectly on the ownership or the nationality of the ship or other means of transport
on which any part of the through journey has been, or is to be, accomplished.
Article 2. 1 urkey undertakes neither to impose nor to maintain any control over
transmigration traffic through her territories beyond measures necessary to ensure that
passengers are bond fide in transit; nor to allow any shipping company or any other
private body, corporation, or person interested in the traffic to take any part whatever
in, or to exercise any direct or indirect influence over, any administrative service that
may be necessary for this purpose.
Article 3. Turkey undertakes to make no discrimination or preference, direct or
indirect, in the duties, charges and prohibitions relating to importations into or
exportations from her territories, or in the charges and conditions of transport of
goods or persons entering or leaving her territories, based on the frontier crossed ; or
op the kind, ownership or flag of the means of transport (including aircraft) employed ;
or on the original or immediate place of departure of the vessel, waggon or aircraft
or other means of transport employed, or its ultimate or intermediate destination; or
on the route of oi places of transhipment on the journey ; or on whether any port
through which the goods are imported or exported is a Turkish port or a port belonging
to any foreign country, or on whether the goods are imported or exported by sea, by
land, or by air.
Turkey particularly undertakes not to establish against the ports and vessels of
any of the Allied and Associated Powers any surtax or any direct or indirect bounty
for export or import by Turkish ports or vessels, or by those of another Power, for
example, by means of combined tariffs. She further undertakes that persons or goods
passing through a port or using a vessel of any of the Allied and Associated Powers
shall not be subjected to any formality or delay whatever to which such persons or
goods would not be subjected if they passed through a Turkish port or a port of any
other Power, or used a Turkish port or a port of any other Power.
Article 4. All necessary administrative and technical measures shall be taken to
expedite, as much as possible, the transmission of goods across the Turkish frontiers
and to ensure their forwarding and transport from such frontiers irrespective of
whether such goods are 'coming from, or going to the territories ol the Allied and
Associated Powers or are in transit from or to those territories, under the same material
conditions in such matters as rapidity of carriage and care en route as are enjoyed b\
other goods of the same kind carried on Turkish territory under similar conditions of
transport.
In particular, the transport of perishable goods shall be promptly and regularly
carried out. and the customs formalities shall be effected in such a way as to allow the
goods to be carried straight through by trains which make connection.
Article 5. Subject to the rights of concessionaires, the seaports of the Allied and
Associated Powers are entitled to all favours and to all reduced tariffs granted on
Turkish railways for the benefit of Turkish ports or of any port of another Power.
Article 6. Subject to the rights of concessionaires, Turkey may not refuse to
participate in the tariffs or combinations of tariffs intended to secure for ports of any of
the Allied and Associated Powers advantages similar to those granted by Lurkey to her
own ports or the ports of any other Power.
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