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Trade Agreement between Canada and Tunisia [1972] CATSer 11 (8 August 1972)

E100598 - CTS 1972 No. 25

TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN CANADA AND TUNISIA

The Government of Canada and the Government of the Tunisian Repub­lic, desiring to further and strengthen trade relations between their two countries, have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

The Government of Canada and the Government of the Tunisian Repub­lic shall extend to each other most-favoured-nation treatment, as defined in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and shall in its application comply with the principles and regulations thereof, even if the said Agree­ment should fail to come into force definitively.

ARTICLE II

In compliance with the relevant articles of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade:

(a) The provisions of the preceding article shall not apply to the preferen­tial tariffs or other concessions now granted by Canada exclusively to countries and their overseas dependencies that are entitled to British preferential tariff treatment;

(b) The provisions of the preceding article respecting most-favoured-nation treatment shall not apply to:

- Concessions granted by one of the contracting parties to neighbouring countries with a view to facilitating border traffic;

- Concessions resulting from present or future membership of one of the contracting parties in a customs union or a free trade area;

- Concessions granted by the Tunisian Republic to one or more Arab Maghreb countries.

ARTICLE III

For purposes of this agreement, products originating in and consigned from Tunisia shall be considered Tunisian products, and products originating in and consigned from Canada shall be considered Canadian products.

ARTICLE IV

Each of the contracting parties undertakes to promote and facilitate the expansion of trade relations between the two countries. To this effect, each of the contracting parties shall assist the other, in so far as possible, in the organization of trade missions, exhibitions and fairs, and shall promote a more intensive exchange of trade information between Canadian and Tuni­sian enterprises and organizations.

ARTICLE V

With respect to trade marks, marks of origin and patents, each of the contracting parties shall comply in its trade relations with the obligations imposed by the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as revised at London in 1934. The contracting parties undertake to assist one another in the prevention of any practice which might be prejudi­cial to their trade relations.

ARTICLE VI

All payments in respect of trade between the two countries shall be made in any convertible currency mutually agreed upon by the two contracting parties. These payments shall be made in accordance with the legislation in force in each of two countries.

ARTICLE VII

The Government of each contracting party shall welcome representations or proposals made by the Government of the other contracting party concern­ing the implementation of the present agreement, or other problems affecting their trade relations.

ARTICLE VIII

The present agreement shall come into force on the date of its signature and shall be valid for a period of two years.

It shall be renewable by tacit agreement every two years as long as neither of the contracting parties gives written notice of its termination three months prior to its expiration.

DONE at Tunis this eighth day of August 1972 in duplicate, in French and English, both texts being equally authentic.

D'Iberville Fortier

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

M. Masmoudi

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TUNISIAN REPUBLIC