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to the Brazilian legislation as to sugar,
and for the present no action is being
taken in this country with regard to
Brazilian sugar. If however as I assume
no Brazilian sugar is imported into Hong Kong
the question whether its importation should
or should not be prohibited need not arise, and
I may here repeat what I sugrested in my
telegram of December 8th, viz: that in the
case of countries fravhich no sugar is in-
ported it is unnecessary to issue an order of
prohibition. It is fully understood by the
Sugar Commission that there is no necessity
to apply the penal clause udess there is an
appreciablo import of sugar from the bounty
giving State in question, and in this country
a prohibition Order is accordingly not issued
The
in
case of any such State unless there is
evidence of an appreciable importation of
supar.
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