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any other charges or penalties provided for in its laws and
regulations.

5. Each Party shall permit a good temporarily admitted under this
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Article to be re-exported through a customs port other than that
through which it was admitted.

Article 2.11: Temporary Admission for Containers and Pallets

1. Each Party, as provided for in its laws and regulations, or the
provisions of the related international agreements to which it is
party, shall grant duty-free temporary admission for containers
and pallets, regardless of their origin, in use or to be used in the
shipment of goods in international traffic.

(a) For the purposes of this Article, “container” means an
article of transport equipment (lift-van, movable tank, or
other similar structure):

(i) fully or partially enclosed to constitute a
compartment intended for containing goods;

(ii) of a permanent character and accordingly strong
enough to be suitable for repeated use;

(iii) specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods,
by one or more modes of transport, without
intermediate reloading;

(iv) designed for ready handling, particularly when being
transferred from one mode of transport to another;

(v) designed to be easy to fill and to empty; and

(vi) having an internal volume of one cubic metre or
more.

“Container” shall include the accessories and equipment of
the container, appropriate for the type concerned, provided
that such accessories and equipment are carried with the
container. “Container” shall not include vehicles,
accessories or spare parts of vehicles, or packaging or

6 For Lao PDR, “customs port” means an international customs port.

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