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but does not include income in the form of dividends, interest, rents or royalties, insurance premiums, management charges, or remuneration for personal services. (io) The term " permanent establishment," when used with respect to an enterprise of one of the Contracting Governments means a branch, management, factory, mine, farm, or other fixed place of business, but does not include an agency unless the agent has, and habitually exercises, a general authority to negotiate and conclude contracts on behalf of such enterprise or regularly fills orders on its behalf from a stock of goods or merchandise. An enterprise of one of the Contracting Governments shall not be deemed to have a permanent establishment in the territory of the other Contracting Government merely because it carries on business dealings in that territory through a bona fide broker or general commission agent acting in the ordinary course of his business as such. The fact that an enterprise of one of the Contracting Governments maintains a fixed place of business exclusively for the purchase of goods or merchandise shall not of itself constitute, that fixed place of business a -permanent establishment of the enterprise. The fact that a corporation of one Contracting Government has a subsidiary corporation which is a corporation of the other Contracting Government or which is engaged in trade or business in the territory of such other Contracting Government (whether through a permanent establishment or otherwise) shall not of itself constitute that subsidiary corporation a permanent establishment of its parent corporation. The maintenance within the territory of one of the Contracting Governments by an enterprise of the other Contracting Government of a warehouse for convenience of delivery and not for purposes of display shall not of itself constitute a permanent establishment within that territory even though offers of purchase have been obtained by an agent of the enterprise in that territory and transmitted by him to the enterprise for acceptance. (2) In the application of the provisions of the present Convention by one of the Contracting Governments any term not otherwise defined shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning which it has under the laws of that Contracting Government relating to the taxes which are the subject of the present Convention. Article 111 (1) The industrial or commercial profits of a United States enterprise shall not be subject to New Zealand tax unless the enterprise is engaged in trade or business in New Zealand through a permanent