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Art. 70. Articles which are prohibited to be imported into or exported from China may neither be sent by postal parcels.
II.-Special Rules.
(A.) Parcels sent to China.
Art. 71. Parcels addressed to places in China must be accompanied by Customs declarations in duplicate, on the lines given in the Parcel Post Rules of the Rome Convention (Detailed Regulations, Article 6 (1)).
Art. 72. In the declarations must be given place of dispatch, denomination of contents, form of packing, gross and net weight, value of contents, place of destination, and name of addressee.
Pogranitchnaya,
Art. 73. On arrival of the parcels at the stations "Manchuria" and "Pogranitchnaya," the Postal Department hands in to the custom-house a list of parcels in duplicate, together with two copies of the corresponding declarations. In the list the parcels must be grouped together as far as possible according to their place of destination.
Art. 74. The custom-house either demands the presentation of all or a part of parcels for examination, or sends an officer to examine them at the post-office, or, on the strength of declarations, passes the parcels without examination.
Art. 75. The amount of duty, if any is due, will be marked on the declarations and in the list, of each of which the custom-house retains one copy, and returns the duplicate copies of the list and declarations to the post-office.
Art. 76. Parcels not liable to duty will be marked in the list and on the declarations "duty free."
Art. 77. If addressees of parcels are in a place where there is a custom-house, they are to pay the duty to the custom-house, which issues receipts, on the presentation of which the post-office delivers the parcel. Duty may also be paid to the post-office, which in such cases transmits the sum collected to the custom-house,
The issue of parcels for which duty had been fixed by the Customs is not to take place before the presentation of the Customs receipt, or until the amount of duty had been paid to the post-office.
Art. 78. Parcels addressed to other places in China where there are no other custom-houses are to be sent to the post-office nearest to the place of residence of the addressee, accompanied by declarations, and with a remark, "duty free," or "duty amounting to roubles copecks, to be collected before delivery" (which resembles trade charges for the amount of duty due).
Art. 79. Sums collected by post-offices from the addressees of parcels are to be remitted by them to the entering Customs concerned, or to the Harbin custom-house, in full, at the expense of receivers of parcels.
Art. 80. For the execution of such Customs formalities, the Postal Department has a right to exact from addressees a commission at the rate fixed by international or Russian postal regulations.
Art. 81. In case of a refusal of the addressee to pay the duty, parcels will be dealt with in accordance with the existing postal regulations, but if it be decided to sell such parcels the duty assessed must be paid by the purchaser.
(B.) Parcels sent from China.
Art. 82. Parcels to be exported from China and dispatched from the stations "Manchuria" and "Pogranitchnaya," or from places where there is a custom-house, must first be presented to the Customs for examination and payment of duty, whenever such is due, and to receive a permit, without which the post-office will not accept parcels (for transmission).
Art. 83. When conveying such duty-paid parcels through the stations "Manchuria" and "Pogranitchnaya," a list of parcels, together with one copy of Customs declarations, is to be presented by the Postal Department to the custom-house concerned. Parcels of this category must as far as possible be packed up separately from other parcels which have not paid duty. Such packages, at the option of the Customs, will travel under seals of the custom-house which levied duty as far as the frontier station, where the seals will be removed by the leaving Customs.
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Art. 84. Whenever parcels are to be sent from places where there is no custom-house, a Customs declaration in triplicate must simultaneously be handed in to the post-office and duty paid at the rate of 5 per cent. on the value declared. The amount of duty is to be simultaneously forwarded to the leaving Customs at the expense of the sender.
Art. 85. On arrival of such parcels at the frontier station a list in duplicate, together with Customs declaration in triplicate, is to be presented to the Customs. The amount of duty levied and remitted must be marked in the list and on declarations.
Art. 86. The custom-house either demands the presentation of all or a part of passing parcels for examination, or sends an officer to examine at the post-office (or in the postal car), or gives permission for the parcels to be sent on without examination, and retains one copy each of the list and declarations.
Art. 87. If at the examination a discrepancy between the contents of a parcel and the declaration be discovered giving grounds to suspect intention to defraud the Customs, such parcels will be liable to confiscation.
Art. 88. In case of too low a declaration of the value on the basis of which duty was levied by the Postal Department at the place of dispatch of the parcel, the release of such parcel for abroad may be deferred by the Customs until the deficient amount has been paid up.