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MULTILATERAL-PEACE WITH ITALY-FEB. 10, 1947 2. In connection with importation into or exportation from or transit through the Free Port, the authorities of the Free Territory shall not levy on such goods customs duties or charges other than those levied for services rendered. 3. However, in respect of goods, imported through the Free Port for consumption within the Free Territory or exported from this Territory through the Free Port, appropriate legislation and regulations in force in the Free Territory shall be applied. Article 6 Warehousing, storing, examining, sorting, packing and repacking and similar activities which have customarily been carried on in the free zones of the port of Trieste shall be permitted in the Free Port under the general regulations established by the Director of the Free Port. Article 7 1. The Director of the Free Port may also permit the processing of goods in the Free Port. 2. Manufacturing activities in the Free Port shall be permitted to those enterprises which existed in the free zones of the port of Trieste before the coming into force of the present Instrument. Upon the proposal of the Director of the Free Port, the Council of Government may permit the estab- lishment of new manufacturing enterprises within the limits of the Free Port. Article 8 Inspection by the authorities of the Free Territory shall be permitted within the Free Port to the extent necessary to enforce the customs or other regulations of the Free Territory for the prevention of smuggling. Article 9 1. The authorities of the Free Territory will be entitled to fix and levy harbour dues in the Free Port. 2. The Director of the Free Port shall fix all charges for the use of the facilities and services of the Free Port. Such charges shall be reasonable and be related to the cost of operation, administration, maintenance and development of the Free Port. Article 10 In the fixing and levying in the Free Port of harbour dues and other charges under Article 9 above, as well as in the provision of the services and 61 STAT.] 1445