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furnished and requesting to be furnished with such observations as this Board might have to offer upon the subject.
In reply, I am to request that you will be good enough to inform F.O. that, in the opinion of the Board of Trade, the Convention referred to practically carries out the provisions of Franco-Chinese Treaty of Peace, which was the subject of correspondence between this Board and the F.O. in July last, and with regard to which the views of the Board were fully set forth in the letter addressed to you from this Department on 5 Aug. 1885.
It will be recollected that in this letter the Board of Trade laid considerable stress upon the point of the inequality between the duties to be charged under this treaty upon goods imported into China over the new Franco-Chinese land frontier, and those actually in force at the various treaty ports.
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