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Annex 3.
IMPORT CERTIFICATE SYSTEM.
SITUATION TO DATE (March 16th, 1923).
The following Governments have stated that they will bring the system into force f date mentioned in each case:
Albania
Austria
Czechoslovakia Denmark
Esthonia
Great Britain
Greece India
Italy
Japan Latvia
Luxemburg Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
Panama
Poland
Siam
South Africa Spain
September 1st, 1922. September 1st, 1922. September 1st, 1922. October 1st, 1922. January 1st, 1923. September 1st, 1922. September 1st, 1922. January 1st, 1923. January 1st, 1923. January 1st, 1923.
April 1st, 1923. April 28th, 1922.
No date given, but already in force. April 1922.
No date given, but already in force. March 1922.
September 1st, 1922.
January 1st, 1923.
September 28th, 1921.
November 1st, 1922.
The following Governments have accepted the system but have not, as yet, given any d on which it will be brought into force:
Australia, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Germany, Haiti, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Se
Hungary
Newfoundland Switzerland.
TOMS CONTROL OF THE IMPORT AND EXPORT OF OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS.
REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE.
The Sub-Committee was appointed at the instance of Sir Malcolm Delevingne (5th meeting) and included the following members:
M. BRENIER, Chairman.
Sir MALCOLM DELEVINGNE (Great Britain).
Dr. UCHINO (Japan).
Mr. NEVILLE (United States).
M. BLANCO assisted the Sub-Committee, and Mr. CHAPMAN, Customs expert of the League of Nations, drew up a most complete report, which pressure of time entirely prevented the Sub-
mmittee from examining before the end of the session.
The primary object was to devise some plan for the drawing up of uniform statistics (as far a possible), so as to prevent the recurrence, to give only one instance, of the enormous discre- encies which the official British and Japanese statistics, when compared, showed as to morphine. It immediately appeared that the problem was not only one of nomenclature and figures and tables translating them), but, fundamentally, a problem of international means of control
sing again the question of the licensing system for exports.
Mr. Chapman's very thorough report contains suggestions most of which appear reasonable and effective. But some imply, not only the solution of the fundamental difficulty of a uniform stem of licences or permits, but also changes in the actual practice of many countries; for in- ance, that the export licences should be granted by a central authority in a single bureau The and which will naturally react ute particulars to be given, so as to ensure a strict control Very usefully on the statistics may also raise some difficulty.
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As the report recalls, the Customs treatment and the systems of trade statistics (were it only as to nomenclature) are exceedingly diverse throughout the world; it does not seem impossible
to agree on some uniform method as to recording the movements of opium and dangerous drugs. especially those interested in the But it is certainly necessary that the several Governments
rade
should be consulted on this matter.
It was therefore agreed that the Secretariat should be asked to communicate Mr. Chapman's to the principal Governments portas embodying most useful remarks and suggestions ncerned, and, in particular, to those having delegates on the Opium Advisory Committee, So as to have their advice on the subject.
The Sub-Committee in its first and only sitting — agreed on the following essential points: 1. That the imports and exports of the drugs falling under the 1912 Convention should
be recorded in a uniform manner;
2. That the statistics should, among other points, necessarily record at least the following
particulars:
(a) the port or country of consignment, care being taken to define the word exactly, "original" consignment, as distinguished from the country of immediate, or last, (b) the country of final destination.
receipt.
3. That particular regard should be had to the question of transhipments, so as to avoid
leakage.
4. That the system of treating and recording all narcotics covered by the Convention as actual imports immediately on landing or on arrival, even if these narcotics are landed into a bonded warehouse, is a measure which tends to remove one of the main causes of discrepancies in international statistics, and permits a better watch being kept on move- ments of drugs its adoption by all countries is worthy of serious consideration.
The system in question was introduced in Japan as from January 1st, 1921.
5. As to imports, that the statistics should show clearly whether the drugs were imported.
(a) for internal consumption;
in bond (when released from bond for export, the drugs should be exactly recorded); for transhipment, transit or re-export.
The Sub-Committee would like to draw particular attention to the difficulties attending an xact record of postal parcels containing the drugs, which is none the less very necessary, as their bature (of the drugs
—not of raw or prepared opium) admits of an enormous traffic by this Beans. There is also the new difficulty arising from air-transport of these parcels.
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