Bilateral Economic and Commercial Agreement between Jordan and Israel.

The Agreement is composed of 22 articles, 1 Protocol and 2 Annexes. Article 1 encourages the economic and commercial collaboration between the two Countries. Article 2 terminates all forms of boycott. Article 6 decrees the enlargement of the cooperation in economic, commercial and industrial fields by the encouragement of the joint industrial activities, facilitation of transit, collaboration in establishing marketing and promotion canals, facilitation of visits between the two Countries, protection and improvement of environment and the establishment of commercial expositions and exhibitions. Article 8 refers to dispute settlement. Article 10 reserves the right of the two Countries to protect the public security, moral values, human life, animal, plant, public health and natural resource. Article 13 concerns the protection of intellectual propriety rights, trade and industrial propriety rights. Article 17 encourages the reciprocal recognition of laboratory analysis certificates and results as well as the exchange of laws, regulations and the technical standardization and metrology. Article 20 decrees the establishment of the Joint Committee to facilitate the implementation of this Agreement. Annex (1a) lists the Jordanian commodities total exempted from customs taxes. Annex (1b) lists the Jordanian commodities with exemption of 50% from customs taxes. Annex (1c) lists the Jordanian commodities with exemption of 30% from customs taxes. Annex 2 lists the Israeli commodities with exemption of 10% and 5% from customs taxes.