ECOWAS
REVISED
TREATY
ARTICLE 44
INTERNALLEGISLATION
MemberStates undertake not to enact-legislation and/or make regulations which directly
or indirectly discriminate against the same or like products of another Member State.
ARTICLE 45
RE-EXPORTATION OF GOODS AND TRANSIT FACILITIES
1.
Where Customs duty has been charged and collected on any goods imported from
a third country into a Member State the re-exportation of such goods into another
Member State shall be subject to the provisions of the Protocol relating to the re
exportation of goods within the Community.
2.
Each Member State, in accordance with international regulations and the
ECOWAS Convention relating to Inter-State RoadTransitof Goods,shall grant
fulland unrestricted freedom of transitthrough its territory for goodsproceeding
to or froma thirdcountryindirectly throughthatterritoryto or from other Member
States; and such transit shall not be subject to any discrimination, quantitative
restrictions, duties or other charges.
3.
Notwithstanding paragraph 2 of this Article:
(a)
goods in transit shall be subject to the Customs law; and
(b)
goods in transit shall be liable to the charges usually made for carriage
and for any services which may be rendered, provided such charges are
not discriminatory and are inconformity with international transit
regulations.
4.
Wheregoodsare imported from a thirdcountry into one MemberState,each of
the other Member States shall befree to regulate the transfer to it of such goods
whether by a system of licensing andcontrolling importers or by othermeans.
5.
Theprovisions of paragraph 4 of this Article shall apply to goods which, under
the provisions ofArticle 38of this Treaty, fail to be accepted as originating in a
Member State.
ARTICLE 46
CUSTOMS CO-OPERATION AND ADMINISTRATION
Member States shall in accordance with the advice of the Trade, Customs Taxation,
Statistics, Money and Payments Commission and the provisions of the Convention for
Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters, take appropriate measures to
harmonise and standardise their Customs regulations and procedures to ensure the
effective applicationof the provisionsof this Chapterand to facilitate the movement of
goods and services across their frontiers.
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