Handelsverdrag tussen Nederland en Canada

Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada imported into the Netherlands and articles the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands imported into Canada shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or restriction be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article the produce or manufacture of Canada into the Netherlands, or of any article the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands into Canada which shall not equally extend to the importation of like articles being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. This last provision is not applicable to the sanitary and other prohibitions occasioned by the necessity of protecting the safety of persons or of cattle, or of plants useful to agriculture.

Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada exported to the Netherlands and articles the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands exported to Canada shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles exported to any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or retriction be imposed on the exportation of any article from Canada to the Netherlands or from the Netherlands to Canada which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country.

Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada passing in transit through the Netherlands and articles the produce or manufacture of the Netherlands passing in transit through Canada shall be reciprocally free from all transit duties whether they pass through direct or whether during transit they are unloaded, warehoused or reloaded.

It is understood that in all matters governing the import, export and transit of merchandise the Netherlands grants to Canada and Canada grants to the Netherlands the treatment of the most favoured nation.

The name „Netherlands” whereever used in this Convention shall be held to include the Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curaçao.
The present Convention, after being approved by the Parliament of Canada and by the competent authority on the part of the Netherlands, shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Ottawa as soon as possible. It shall come into force immediately upon the exchange of ratifications and shall be binding upon the Contracting Parties during four years from the date of its coming into force. In case neither of the Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other twelve months before the expiration of the said period of four years of its intention to terminate the present Convention it shall remain in force until the expiration of one year from the date on which either of the Contracting Parties shall have given to the other notice of its intention to terminate it.