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4o It is a mistake to state that Cantor Lunks apart, "all other "pinks: are overhauled at
"Cafemimoon and pay their "duties their according to a "Tariff fixed by the stopps and " which differs from the Treaty "Pariff" Nominally the Happor Tariff and the Foreign Treaty tariff are the came as рам
as duties
when
a
are
conserved, and
junck arrives without
native Customs documents we
charge
A
her cargo
in the
same mannet as
on
we shonen
goods per steamer
ay
Foreign sailing vessel - Unenu- -merated goods
are charged
on at the rate of 5% ad. val. Lekin is levied according to a special tariff issued by the Likin Bureau.
5. No differential duty to reffactically
existo at Canton, the advanta which shippers per punk gain
over
дея
shippers by Foreign vessel
on the eylent
being dependent on
to which they are
able to bribe
the stoppo's subordinates
6. The differential treatment of
which the stong Kong
cargo Chamber.
of Commerce Com -
plains of, can only be avoided by placing the native shipping frequenting Hong Kong and the Treaty ports in general under the sole control of the Forciqu Inspectorate of Customer, an
· arrangement which, in view 아
of of the
the existing system. Government in China, would
unturally be recented by the local officials as being inimical alike to the interests of the Provincial treasury
and