BONDED WAREHOUSE REGULATIONS AT SHANGHAI.
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treaty ports or to a foreign port they will not be required to pay duty before quitting bond.
LOCAL RULE I.-Goods for which a permit to ship in bond (non-duty paid) or a permit to withdraw from bond for shipment is issued must, in case of failure of shipment, be taken direct to the Customs jetty for examination; application to withdraw from bond for import must then be made for such shut-out cargo.
10.-Goods removed from the bonded warehouse without a permit will be confiscated, and the proprietors of the bonded warehouse will be responsible for the amount of the duty leviable.
11.-Twelve months is proposed as the limit during which goods may remain in bond. If not applied for by the importer at the expiration of that period, the proprietors of the bonded warehouse must pay the import duty and remove the goods elsewhere.
12. The insurance of bonded goods, warehouse charges, and indemnity for fire or loss, are matters to be arranged between the proprietors of the bonded warehouse and the importers, and do not concern the Customs.
3rd. Regulations to be given effect to by the Customs. C.
13.-Seeing that German vessels will arrive with cargo which is, and with cargo which is not, to be bonded, the Customs must receive the Consular report and import manifest before issuing permits to discharge, etc.
14.-On application from the importer to bond foreign goods, the Customs will issue the bonding permit with the permit to land.
15.-On application from the importer, the Customs will issue a sample permit to open packages in bond for the purpose of taking samples.
16. When the importer desires to dispose of bonded goods in Shanghai, or re-export them to a Yangtze port, the Customs will, upon application, issue a duty memo, and upon production of the duty receipt will grant a release permit, and, if required, a Yangtze export permit.
17-Upon application from the importer to re-export bonded goods to a treaty port, other than a Yangtsze port, or to a foreign port, the Customs will issue a release permit and an export permit.
18.-The Customs will enter on the clearance of each German vessel the amount of import duty paid, and the number of packages placed in bond on which payment of duty is deferred.
19.-The form of bond to be entered into by the proprietors of the bonded ware- house, the books to be kept there, the arrangements for either permanently stationing Customs officers at the warehouse or for periodical inspection, as well as the rules for the delay routine of work at the warehouse, will be decided by the Shanghai Customs as circumstances require.
20.-In the quarterly returns of revenue the duty paid on goods released from bond is to be entered in the return for the current quarter; and in the annual trade returns such goods are to be entered under their proper flag. Goods remaining in bond are to be treated, as regards these returns, as not yet imported.
4th.-Rules to be observed by the Proprietors of Bonded Warehouses.
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21.-The proprietors of warehouses appointed by the Shanghai Customs to store goods in bond must enter into bonds in which they bind themselves to observe all the regulations of the Shanghai Customs, and engage that no goods shall enter the ware- house without a permit, and that, once in the warehouse, goods shall not be opened or released without the proper permit; and in the event of goods being so opened or released without permit, the said proprietors bind themselves to pay a fine of so many times the duty leviable on the goods concerned.
LOCAL RULE I.-Bonded warehouses shall be exclusively reserved for the storage of bonded goods.