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Foreign goods under Chinese Customs exemption certificate, landed at Hong Kong from one treaty port for transhipment to another treaty port must be transhipped so as to reach their treaty port destination within a time limit of one year from the date of issue of such exemption certificate. Should such goods fail to reach their treaty port destination within such time limit they shall on arrival be held liable to import duty.
(d) Chinese goods under Chinese Customs documents, landed at Hong Kong from one treaty port for transhipment to another treaty port, must be tran- shipped so as to reach their treaty port destination within three months from the date of the original shipment. Should such goods fail to reach their treaty port destination within such time limit they shall on arrival be regarded as having lost their native status and be treated accordingly.
(e) In special cases, foreign or Chinese goods passing through Hong Kong, in transit from one treaty port to another, may, on permission first being obtained from the Chinese Maritime Customs, be allowed to be sold in Hong Kong. Foreign goods thus sold, under exemption certificate, shall be entitled to drawback of the duty originally paid to the Chinese Maritime Customs, according to the regulations governing the issue of drawbacks on foreign cargo.
The Chinese Maritime Customs win endeavour to prevent the me ty U VALL Colony from China of opium, compounds of opium, extracts of opium and other danger- ous drugs, and of intoxicating liquors and tobacco, and of any other article which on importation into the Colony is subject to restriction or liable to import duty, and will co- operate with the Hong Kong Government in controlling the traffic in these articles by sea, land and air.
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The Hong Kong Government will endeavour to prevent the illicit entry into China of salt, and of arms and munitions of war, and will co-operate with the Chinese Govern- ment in controlling the traffic in such articles by sea, land and air.
ARTICLE XII.
For the promotion of accurate knowledge and in the interests of the Chinese re- venue the Hong Kong Government will, so far as the conditions of the free port admit of it, collect and publish statistics of imports and exports.
ARTICLE XIII.
Office and warehouse accommodation for the examination and storage of goods car- ried by the Kowloon-Canton Railway and for the payment of duties thereon will be pro- vided at reasonable rates by the Hong Kong Government. Such duties will be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs under regulations to be mutually agreed upon, under the following general conditions:-
(a) Goods leaving Kowloon for China by train stopping at no intermediate station in British territory shall pay Customs import duty prior to depar-
ture.
ARTICLE X.
For the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony the Hong Kong Government will select in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs certain places of entry for goods or livestock.
Whenever it is found that any goods or livestock have been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents the Hong Kong Government will seize such goods or livestock as security for the payment of such dues as may be mutually agreed upon. If such dues are not paid the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by proceedings against the owner or by sale of the goods or livestock.
ARTICLE XI.
ENDEAVOUR
(a) The Chinese Maritime Customs will take active steps to prevent the illicit entry into the Colony from China of intoxicating liquor, opium, compounds of opium, morphine, and tobacco and will co-operate with the Hong Kong Government in controlling the traffic in these articles by sea,and by landy AND AIR
ENDEAVOUR
(b) The Hong Kong Government will continue to take active steps to prevent the SALT AND of illicit entry into China of arms and munitions of war, and will co-operate with the Chinese
Government in controlling the traffic in such articles by sea, and by land, AND AIR.
DRUGS, AND OF INTOXICATING
LIQUORS AND TOBACCO, AND OF EVERY OTHER ARTICLE WHICH ON
EXTRACTS OF OPIUM AND OTHER
JANGER Ous
LE TALL.
Goods carried by steam or motor vessels, or by junks or lighters, registered as in Articles V and VI, clearing from Hong Kong for non-open ports as defined in Article V, shall acquit themselves of import duty before departure, and may, if so desired, acquit themselves also of transit dues and be granted transit passes, at rates and with pri- vileges not less favourable than those applied or accorded to goods clearing under similar circumstances from Canton or any other treaty port for a non-open port as defined in Article V. Report for Customs purposes must be made at the Chinese Maritime Cus- toms sub-office agreed upon by the Hong Kong Government. All vessels carrying transit pass cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at the Customs stations specified
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IMPORTATION
LIABLE
INTO THE COLONY IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTION TO IMPORT DUTY,
OR