RULES
(Annexed to the Tariff of 1858. )
RULE 1. — Unenumerated Goods.—Articles not enumerated in the list of exports, but enumerated in the list of imports, when exporte 1, will pay the amount of duty set against them in the st of imports; and, similarly, art cles not enumerated in the list of imports, but enumerate 1 in the list of exports, when imported, will pay the amount of duty set against them in the list of exports.
Articles not enumerated in either list, nor in the list of duty-free goods, will pay an ad valorem duty of 5 per cent., calculated on their market value.
RULE II.-Duty-fre - Goo ls, —Gold and silver bullion, foreign coins, flour, Indian meal, sago, biscuits, preserve·l meats and vegetables, cheese, butter, confectionery, foreign clothing, jewellery, plated-ware, perfumery, soap of all kinds, charcoal, firewood, candles (foreign), tobacco (foreign), cigars (foreign), wine, beer, spirits, bo isehold stores, ship's stores, personal baggage, stationery, carpeting, draggeting, cutlery, foreign medicines, glass, and crystal ware.
The above pay no import or export duty, but, if transported into the interior will, with the exception of p rsonal baggage, gold and silver bullion, and foreign coins, pay a transit duty at the rate of 21⁄2 per cent, a l valor m.
A freight, or part freight, of duty-free commodities (personal baggage, gold and silver billion, and foreign coins, excepted) will render the vessel carrying tem, though no other cargo be on board, liable to tonnage dues.
RULE III.—Contraband Goods. — Import and export trade is alike prohibited in the following articles: Gunpowder, shot, cannou," fowling-pieces, rifles, muskets, pistols, and all other munit ons and implements of war; and salt.
RULE IV.— Weights and Measures. —In the calculation of the Tariff, the weight of a picul of one hundred catties is held to be equal to one hundred and thirty-three and one-third poun is avoirdupois; and the length of a chang of ten Chinese feet to be equal to oué hundre i and forty-one English inches.
One Chinese chih is held to be equal to fourteen and one-tenth inches English ; and four yards English, less three inches, to equal ono chang,
RULE V.—Rejarding Crtain Commodities Heretofore Contraband.—The restric- tions affecting trade in opinin, cash, grain, pulse, sulpaur, brimstone, salt petre, and spelter are relaxed, under the following conditions ; —
1.—*Opium will henceforth pay thirty Tals per picul import duty. The importer will sell it only at the port. It will be carried into the interior by Chinese only, and only as Chinese property; the forein trader will not be allowed to vecompany it. The provisions of Article IX. of the Treaty of Tientsin, by which British subjects are authorized to proceel into the interior with passports to trade, will not extend to it, nor will those of Article XXVII. of the same treaty, by which the transit dues are regulate . The transit dues ou it will be arranged as the Chinese Government see fit: nor in future revisions of the Tariff is the same rule of revision to be applied to opium as to other goods.
2.--Copper Cash.-The export of cash to any foreign port is prohibited; but it shall be lawful for Brit sh subjects to ship it at one of the open ports of China to another, on compliance with the following Regulation:-The shipper shall give notice of the amount of cash he desires to ship, and the port of its destination, and shall bin himself either by a bond, with two sufficient sureties, or by depositing
* For duty ◊ jùm see (onvention signed in 1985, also the Treaty of 1962.
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