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1. Each Contracting Party exempts the Designated Airlines of the other Contracting Party from import restrictions, customs duties, direct or indirect taxes, inspection fees and all other national and/or local duties and charges on aircraft as well as their regular equipment, fuel, lubricants, maintenance equipment, aircraft tools, consumable technical supplies, spare parts including engines, aircraft stores including but not limited to such items as food, beverages, liquor, tobacco and other products for sale to or use by passengers during flight and other items intended for use or used solely in connection with the operation or servicing of aircraft used by such Designated Airline operating the Agreed Services, as well as printed ticket stock, air waybills, staff uniforms, computers and ticket printers used by the Designated Airline for reservations and ticketing, any printed material which bears the insignia of the Designated Airline printed thereon and usual publicity and promotional materials distributed free of charge by such Designated Airline.
2. The exemptions granted by this Article shall apply to the items referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article which are:
a) introduced into the Territory of one Contracting Party by or on behalf of a Designated Airline of the other Contracting Party;
b) retained on board the aircraft of a Designated Airline of one Contracting Party upon arriving in and until leaving the Territory of the other Contracting Party and/or consumed during flight over that Territory; or
c) taken on board the aircraft of a Designated Airline of one Contracting Party in the Territory of the other Contracting Party and intended for use in operating the Agreed Services,
whether or not such items are used or consumed wholly or partly within the Territory of the Contracting Party granting the exemption, provided such items are not alienated in the Territory of the said Contracting Party.
3. The regular airborne equipment, as well as the materials, supplies and stores normally retained on board the aircraft used by the Designated Airline of either Contracting Party may be unloaded in the Territory of the other Contracting Party only with the approval of the customs authorities of that other Contracting Party. In such case, such equipment and items shall enjoy the exemptions provided for by paragraph 1 of this Article, provided that they may be required to be placed under the supervision of the said authorities up to such time as they are re-exported or otherwise disposed of in accordance with customs regulations.
4. The exemptions provided for by this Article shall also be available in situations where the Designated Airlines of either Contracting Party have entered into arrangements with (an) other Airline(s), for the loan or transfer in the Territory of the other Contracting Party, of the regular equipment and the other items referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, provided that the other Airline enjoys the same exemption(s) from the other Contracting Party.