INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. 3. The laws and regulations of contracting parties relating to the marking of imported products shall be such as to permit compliance without seriously damaging the products, or materially reducing their value, or unreasonably increasing their cost. 4. As a general rule no special duty or penalty should be imposed by any contracting party for failure to comply with marking requirements prior to importation unless corrective marking is unreasonably delayed or deceptive marks have been affixed or the required marking has been intentionally omitted. 5. The contracting parties shall co-operate with each other with a view to preventing the use of trade names in such manner as to misrepresent the true origin of a product, to the detri- ment of such distinctive regional or geographical names of products of the territory of a contracting party as are protected by its legislation. Each contracting party shall accord full and sympathetic consideration to such requests or representations as may be made by any other contracting party regarding the application of the undertaking set forth in the preceding sontence to names of products which have been communicated to it by the other contracting party. Article X Publication and Administration of Trade Regulations 1. Laws, regulations, judicial decisions and administrative rulings of general application, made effective by any contract- ing party, pertaining to the classification or the valuation of products for customs purposes, or to rates of duty, taxes or other charges, or to requirements, restrictions or prohibi- tions on imports or exports or on the transfer of payments therefor, or affecting their sale, distribution, transportation, A30
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