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(Fredrick M
Maze, the
received by the Hong Kong Government from Sin
Inspector General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, regarding
the willingness of the former to reopen negotiations for a
Customs Agreement on the lines of the 1930 draft;
and a
favourable reply was sent to him with the approval of His
Majesty's Government. It is thought that it would be
better to aim at such an Agreement as an objective rather
at than a
difficult to bring about would involve a serious breach
a Customs Union which would probably prove extremely
and
with the tradition and development of Hong Kong as a free
o financial
a
port, and commercial centre, endangering the great economic
advantages of that status without assurance of adequate
return end would almost certainly raise very difficult
questions of international law.
COLONIAL OFFICE.
November, 1936.
Way.
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