Regulation Governing Transit Goods in the Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf Unified Economic Agreement
(These regulations have been approved by the Financial and Economical Co-operation Committee in its second meeting in June 19-20th 1982, for implementing the Fifth Article of the Unified Economic Agreement. These regulations were effective from the First of March 1983 and were applied to commodities coming through land, sea and air).
Article 1
Permitting the shipment of commodities in means of Transportation through the lands of all the countries signatory to the Unified Economic Agreement, without delay, restriction or discrimination on the type of the containers.
Transit containers have to meet the following conditions:
1 - They have to be designed for shipping commodities according to the Customs Seals System.
2 - Possibility of the Customs Seals to be stamped easily and effectively.
3 - Impossibility of taking out any commodities from the stamped part, or putting any thing in it, without leaving a clear spot or breaking the Custom's Seals.
4 - They should not contain unseen cavities that would make it easy to hide any commodity in them.