BONDED WAREHOUSE REGULATIONS AT SHANGHAI.
GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR BONDING.
The Chinese Government having assented in the Revised German Treaty to the experimental establishment of bonded warehouses at Shangbai, the following pro- visional regulations have been drawn up. They are divided into four sections, accor- ding as they affect-1st, vessels; 2nd, cargo; 3rd, the Custom House; and 4th, the Bonded Warehouse.
1st.-Rules for the Guidance of German Vessels.
A.
1.-After arrival and Consular report, the import manifests of German vessels are to be lodged with the Customs.
2.-When the Consul's report has been received, the manifest handed in, and permits to land applied for and issued, the vessel will be allowed to discharge.
3.-When import cargo has been discharged, export cargo shipped, and dues and duties paid, the Customs clearance will be issued. The Customs will enter on the clearance the amount of import duties paid on foreign goods and the number of packages of foreign goods bonded upon which duty has not been paid.
4. The rules regarding export duties, coast trade duties, and tonnage dues re- main as before.
2nd.-Rules for the Guidance of Importers.
B.
5. A distinction is made between a vessel's import foreign cargo and her native cargo.
While foreign goods may be bonded or not, at the importer's option, native goods will be treated as before-i.e., released upon payment of duty--and will not be allowed to be placed in bond.
6.- Foreign goods may, at the importer's option, be either treated as before-- i.e., pay duty and be released-or may be bonded. The importer must state on his import application-in addition to the description, number of packages, weight, and value of the goods-on which goods he wishes to pay duty and on which he wishes to defer payment, in order that the Customs may know whether to issue a duty memo., or a bonding permit.
Local Rule I.-An application for general discharge permit will be held to be an application for importation on payment of duty.
7.-The importer must in all cases obtain a bonding permit before landing his cargo and placing it in bond.
Local Rule I.-Goods for which a bonding permit is issued must be taken direct to the bonded warehouse.
8.-If the importer wishes to take samples of goods placed in bond he must first obtain a sample permit from the Customs before opening the packages. The bonded warehouse-keeper will, upon production of this sample permit, allow the packages to be opened and samples taken, and the original packages will then be closed in whatever way the importer and warehouse-keeper may agree upon.
9.—When the importer wishes his goods, or any portion of them, to be released from bond, he must supply the Customs with a description of the goods, number of packages, weight, value, date of bonding, name of importing vessel, destination, name of exporting vessel, etc., when applying for duty memo., release permit, or
shipping permit. Goods for sale in Shanghai or for re-export to a Yangtsze port, must pay import duty before being released from bond. If intended for re-exportation to other