MEnCAN FISHERY LEGISIAIION 



Article 3. 



The Federal Territories shall be granted a share of 50% of the income obtained by the 

 Federation through taxes or duties on the development of hunting and similar occupations, 

 and on fishing, diving and similar occupations carried on within areas under the jurisdiction 

 of the said entities or in adjacent waters. 



Article A» Concerning import and export duties, the additional amounts set forth in 

 Article 1, Section I, paragraph F, Section II, paragraph E, and Section XI, paragraph A, 

 will be paid only on amounts ■which actually accrue to the Federal Treasury; consequently, 

 such additional amounts shall not apply to subsidies grauited by law or by presidentisil 

 order. 



Article 7. The Executive is empowered to modify import and export tax rates according 

 to the terms proposed by the Tariff Commission and in keeping with the provisions of Article 

 20 of the Law of Development of Trauisfonnation Industries. The Executive is likewise em- 

 powered to introduce into such rates, on the recommendation of that Commission, any modifi- 

 cations necessary to protect production, to elevate the people's standard of living, and to 

 maintain the value of the national currency. 



APPENDIX rnv 



UW OF MEXICAN FREE PORTS 



Signed September 17, 194-6, Published October 11, 1946. 

 As amended to January 25, 1947. 



Article 1. The Free Ports of Salina Cruz and Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Puerto Mexico, 

 Veracruz, and Topolobampo, Sinaloa, as well as those which in the lUture may be created by 

 decree of the Federal Executive, shall have the extension and limits that he decides; these 

 cannot be modified except by express order of the Executive and they shall be ruled exclusive- 

 ly by the provisions of this Law, its regulations, and the laws aind regulations of sanitary 

 and military order. 



Article 25, Fishing operations in a Free Port are subject to the following: 



I, Ihe fishing boats shall depart from and return to the Free Port without any customs 

 intervention. They shall be dispatched ''via la pesca" by the Superintendency of such Port and 

 they shall, upon return, exhibit the signals provided by article 17 of the Regulation, 



II, Ihe inspection and patrol of fishing activities shall be under the supervision of 

 the Directorate of Fisheries and Maritime Industries, which must exercise them outside of the 

 jurisdictional waters of the P^ee Port, 



III, Fishery products whose capture may have been effected within or without territorial 

 waters, shall be introduced into the country free of customs duties, whether the product is in 

 its natural state, dry, in brine, or packed in open boxes or tins, paying only the amounts 



spe cifled in the Law. 



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