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This correspondence deals with the imposition of duties upon referred Lugar under the new Commercial Treaty with Japan signed in London on the 16th July 1894, which was - brought to
notice by the Chamber your on the 4th Deccumber lost when the
th
you a
letter
| Committee forwarded to |_ addressed to them by Mesors. Jardine
Mathuson 40? in which the maidence
of these duties was
was exhaustively dealt
with.
his stated in the above cor
respondence that the Japanese Govern - ment considered the boy of duties upon Sugar a fundamental part of their protosals, and, at the initial -stage of negotiations, desired they should
free hand in respect of sugar.
retains.
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have
This solicitude on the part of the Japanese Government may anggested to the Foreign Office that that Government had in view proposals cal-
culated
culated to prove cininical ps borul sugar industries, but if any such ous- picions were awakened these were unfortunately not communicated to the Hong Kong Government while the Treaty
was under considerahow,
In the course of correspondence Lord Ripon pointed out that the con ditions asked for by the Japanese.
agreed d to after consultation with Mr. Resevick, a
partner in the form of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Cr. It is not known how for Mr Resivick ex- pressed his approval of the term pro- posed, but although he may expressed his opinion
as to the fairness
have
of a 10% duty, he could not best- pected to have a
full knowledge of such facts before him, as that Raw Sugar would be left free, and the
refined duty levied on an extreme basis of value in Japan.
It is therefore
very
wich
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