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Agreement on rum between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas [1999] CATSer 6 (12 February 1999)

E103147 - CTS 1999 No. 8

AGREEMENT ON RUM BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS

THE CONTRACTING PARTIES, the Government of Canada and the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas;

DESIRING to facilitate the widest possible facilities for the expansion of sales in Canada of rum originating in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas;

HAVE AGREED as follows:

The Government of Canada undertakes to use its good offices with the provincial authorities towards facilitating the accord of national treatment to rum that is the product of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas in respect of measures affecting the listing, delisting, distribution and mark-up of distilled spirit.

This Agreement shall enter into force on signature by the Contracting Parties. It shall remain in force for five years. Thereafter it shall continue in force subject to the right of either Contracting Party, following the initial period of five years, to denounce it on twelve months' notice.

IN WITNESS THEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed this Agreement.

DONE in two copies in Ottawa, this 12th day of February 1999, in the English and French languages, each version being equally authentic.

Robert Speller

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

Angela Missouri Sherman-Peter

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS