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F 3605
19 APR 1939
No. E 289 (4/63E/1939)
Copies sent to:-
Department of Overseas Trade No. 26 Tokyo No. 105
Commercial Counsellor
My Lord,
BRITISH EMBASSY,
NANKING.
SHANGHAI, 13th March, 1939.
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Translation.
IMPORT OF "DUTY-FREE" JAPANESE
GOODS INTO SHANGHAI.
I have the honour to enclose a
translation of an extract from a pamphlet entitled
'the Economic Revival and Reconstruction of Central
China', published in Shanghai by the Sino-Japanese
Research Institute, in August last year.
2.
This translation gives some figures
for the duty-free import of Japanese goods into
Shanghai by Nippon Yusen Kaisha ships from the outbreak
of hostilities until June of last year. The text is
somewhat obscure, but it seems likely that the goods
mentioned here were not even imported under military
permit, ostensibly for military use, as is happen ing at
present on the Yangtse, but were ordinary commercial
cargoes. It must be remembered in this connexion that
until June, 1938, when the revised tariff was brought
into force, the Customs had no control over goods
landed at Japanese wharves, even though it was known that
large quantities of such goods were being imported.
The Right Honourable
Vis count Halifax, K.G., G.C.S.I.,
etc.,
etc.,
etc.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
3./
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