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SUGAR BOUNTIES.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[10894]
No. 1.
Foreign Office to Custom-house.
135
[March 15.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office, March 15, 1912. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, forwarding a letter from Messrs. Czarnikow and Co. relative to Formosan sugar.
A copy of the reply of this department to the Colonial Office letter of the The instructions given 20th October last to which you refer is enclosed herewith.* in March 1911 to the Governor of Hong Kong, that Formosan sugar (with the exception of candied sugar) may be treated as free from bounties have been allowed to stand.
I am accordingly to suggest that your reply to Messrs. Czarnikow should be in the sense of the first paragraph of the letter above referred to, and that they should be further informed that the decision of the Permanent Commission must be regarded as extending to Formosan candied sugar, so that sugar coming from Formosa, must be treated in the same way as sugar coming from Japan proper.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET.
* To Colonial Office, November 18, 1911.
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