COPY.
(F 1720/1720/10)
Copy to:-
Consuls.
No.1168 (25/81A/1937)
Sir,
104
British Embassy,
Peking.
21st December, 1937.
I have the honour to transmit herewith
a copy of a translation published in the November
number of the Shanghai British Chamber of Commerce
Journal of certain provisional measures governing
exemption from import duty of medicines for purposes
of medical relief, which are stated to have been
drawn up jointly by the Ministry of Finance and the
Translation. National Health Administration.
Circular to Consuls No. 90 of 21.12.1937.
2.
As stated in Article three these measures
entitle Central or local government offices or any
recognised organisation purchasing certain medicines.
for the use of wounded soldiers or civilians to
exemption from Customs import duties. The list
mentioned in Article two is, however, omitted from
the Journal in question, and in view of the continued
non-receipt of Chinese Gazettes by this Embassy as a
result of the present crisis, particulars of the
medicines to which the exemption from duty is thus
applicable are not yet available. It may however be
assumed that they comprise the usual medicaments
required for first aid and civil hospital work, with
the possible ex option of the narcotic drugs specified
in the list annexed to the Provisional Measures
Governing the Purchase and Use of Narcotic Drugs,
The Right Honourable
Anthony Eden, M. C., M.P.,
etc., etc., etc.,
Foreign Office.
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