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1. Each Contracting Party undertakes to ensure, in the case of official collective recruitment, that the cost of travel to the receiving State shall never be borne by the migrant worker. The arrangements for payment shall be determined under bilateral agreements, which may also extend these measures to families and to workers recruited individually.
2. In the case of migrant workers and their families in transit through the territory of one Contracting Party en route to the receiving State, or on their return journey to the State of origin, all steps shall be taken by the competent authorities of the transit State to expedite their journey and prevent administrative delays and difficulties.
3. Each Contracting Party shall exempt from import duties and taxes at the time of entry into the receiving State and of the final return to the State of origin and in transit:
a. the personal effects and movable property of migrant workers and members of their family belonging to their household;
b. a reasonable quantity of hand-tools and portable equipment necessary for the occupation to be engaged in.
The exemptions referred to above shall be granted in accordance with the laws or regulations in force hi the States concerned.