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Junk trade between China and Hongkong is carried on between the Port of a British Possession and Ports and Places in China not open to British trade or vessels, and consequently is a trade of "sufferance" only, and was in that sense it was submitted, in my despatch of the 184 of January, that the Haikwan was, in my opinion, authorised to levy upon goods conveyed in Chinese vessels to a British Possession, in accordance with the Tariff of the Treaty of Tientsin, if, I might have added, he chose that scale for the regulation of the junk trade to unauthorised Hongkong Ports in China. Under these circumstances, and considering that a large trade, Import and Export, is done by junks which without them would not exist, it seems hazardous to run any little risk of a stoppage being put to it for the object of lowering a duty which is not excessive except the very short sea route is considered.
As regards the Two "nei-ti-shui" duties, which comprise Port and Barrier dues, on goods which are Imported