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than eight per cent (8%) above its cost price, including the cost, freight, interest, miscellaneous fees, and profit. The local government and the health service department (of the National Health Administration) shall send experts to various localities, who shall supervise and inspect the price and quantity of the medicines purchased, stored and sold, and shall report the same every month to the healty service department and to the Ministry of Finance for inspection and record. ARTICLE SIX. If a central government office wishes to purchase medicines, the health service department shall issue an import-duty free certificate.
If a local government office wishes to purchase medicines, the provincial or municipal government shall first apply in advance for a blank import-duty free certificate at the health service department. But the application, in order to be valid, shall be jointly signed by the competent authority of the provincial or municipal government concerned and by the officer of the health service department. form of the application shall be prescribed by the health service department.
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ARTICLE SEVEN. The Customs shall check import-duty free medicines with the list, in order to ascertain whether the goods agree with those stated on the certificates, and release the goods duty free.
ARTICLE EIGHT. Medicines contributed from abroad to Chinese central or local governments and proper organisations, shall be exempted from import duty in accordance with the procedure provided in Article six of these Measures; the scope of the medicines to be exempted from import duty shall not be confined to those on the list. All medical apparatuses and articles used in connection with wounded soldiers and civilians shall
be exempt from import duty.
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