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Les 100 kilog.
Sucres bruts...
PARAGUAY.
Fr. c.
7 80
7 25
raffinés
*
İLES PHILIPPINES.
Sucres bruta
• 1 31
raffinés
4 64
Danemark
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Vu les procès-verbaux des délibérations de la Commission Permanente de Bruxelles ;
Sur le rapport du Ministre du Commerce, de l'Industrię, des Postes, et des Télégraphes, et d'après l'avis conforme des Départements des Finances et des Colonies,
Décrète :
Article 1. Des droits compensateurs dont la quotité est fixée comme il suit seront perçus à l'importation en France et en Algérie sur les sucres originaires des pays qui accordent des primes à la production ou à l'exportation des sucres :-
Pays d'Origine des Sucres,
Espèces de Sucres.
Unité de Perception,
Quotité du Droit.
Sucre brut
Sucre raffiné
100 kilog. (poids
effectif).
Fr. c. 1 75
Idem
3 50
PORTUGAL.
Sucre brut
Idem
17 75
Sucres bruts
30 58
Roumanie
Sucre raffiné
Idem
22 50
raffinés
37 27
"
HU
Espagne
Sucre de toute espèce
Idem
27 00
POSSESSIONS PORTUGAISES.
(Ambriz, Loanda, Benguela, Mossamedes.)
Sucres bruta
***
raffinés
19 47
19 22
ANGOLA ET MOZAMBIQUE,
Japon
Dominion du Canada
Union Douanière Sud-Africaine (Colonie du Cap, Natal, Trans- Vaal, Orange River, Rhodésie Méridionale, Basutoland, et Bechuanaland)
Sucre candi ...
Idem
2 61
Sucre raffiné
Idem
3 63
Sucre brat.**
Idem
2 05
Sucre raffiné
Idem
3 89
Sucres bruts
13 61
Sucre brut
Idem
0 91
Fédération Australienne
raffinés
13 69
Sucre rafficé
Idem
5 62
Sucre raffiné
Idem
13 51
ARCHIPEL DU CAP VERT, SAN THOMÈ ET
PRINCIPE,
Sucre blanc...
Idem
10 80
Chili
Sucres bruts
11
raffinéa
8 36
8 11
'Sucre en grain de première
Idem
6 45
production on cassonnade
Sucre impur
Idem
5 98
Sucre blanc...
Idem
20 50
En exécution de la mission que l'Article VII. de la Convention du 5 Mars, 1902, a confiée au Gouvernement du Roi, j'ai l'honneur, M. le Ministre, de recourir à l'obligeante entremise de votre Excellence pour porter le contenu de la présente communication à la connaissance du Gouvernement Britannique.
Je saisis, &c.,
FAVEREAU.
Art. 2. Les droits compensateurs applicables aux sucres originaires des pays pour lesquels la Commission Permanente n'a pas encore déterminé le montant de la prime seront perçus suivant le taux ci-après :-
Costa Rica
Bucre raffiné
Idem
15, 00
Sucre brut
100
Idem
15 25
Pays d'Origine des Bucres.
Espèces de Suares.
Unité de Perception.
Quotité du Droit.
Fr. c.
République Argentine...
Sucre de toute espèce, à l'ex- ception du sucre exporté Bans bonification de l'im- pôt intérieur.
100 kilog. (poids
effectif).
50 00
République Dominicaine
Sucre de toute espèce
Idem
50 ου
Sucre ne titrant pas moins
Idem
8 14
de 99 degrés.
Russie
Sucre ne titrant pas moins Idem
7 17
de 88 degrés.
Sucre titrant moins de 88 Idem
6 19
degrés.
Enclosure 2 in No. 32.
Extract from the "JOURNAL Officiel" of November 16, 1904.
MINISTÈRE DU Commerce, de L'INDUSTRIE, DES POSTES, ET DES TÉLÉGRAPHES.
Le Président de la République Française,
Vu la Loi du 27 Janvier, 1903, qui a approuvé la Convention relative au régime
des sucres signée à Bruxelles, le 5 Mars, 1902;
Vu le Décret du 28 Mai, 1903, qui a promulgué la dite Convention;
Vu l'Article IV. de la Convention, par lequel les Etats contractants se sont engagés à frapper d'un droit spécial à l'importation sur leur territoire ou à prohiber les sucres originaires de pays qui accordent des primes à la production ou à l'exporta- tion des sucres;
Vu l'Article VII. de la Convention, qui a chargé une Commission Permanente siégeant à Bruxelles de déterminer le montant des droits spéciaux à appliquer aux sucres des pays à primes;
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Art. 3. Le Ministre du Commerce, de l'Industrie, des Postes, et des Télégraphes et le Ministre des Finances sont chargés, chacun en ce qui le concerne, de l'exécution du présent Décret, qui sera inséré au "Bulletin des Lois" et publié au "Journal Officiel."
Fait à Paris, le 10 Novembre, 1904.
Par le Président de la République :
Le Ministre du Commerce, de l'Industrie, des Postes, et des Télégraphes,
GEORGES TROUILLOT.
Le Ministre des Finances,
EMILE LOUBET.
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4. Mr. Lyttelton notices further that glucose is not mentioned in Regulation 8, Enclosure 1, and he would propose to suggest to the Governor that the word "glucose" should be inserted between "include" and "molasses."
5. With regard to sugar in transit, Mr. Lyttelton would propose to allow the Governor discretion to amend the regulations so as to provide for bounty-fed sugar passing through the Colony under proper safeguards, whenever the necessary arrangements can be made.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
ROUVIER.
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No. 33.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN.
(Sent 1.20 p.m., December 19, 1904.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 34.]
Referring to my telegram of December 8, suspend action as to all countries named between the words "In addition
In case of" except Brazil. Their cases are to be re-considered.
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and
No. 34.
GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received 11.40 a.m., December 20, 1904.) TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 40.]
Referring to your telegram of 19th December. † Desirable to avert report of Commission against Philippines as exclusion of their sugar under Ordinance XIV. entails serious consequences on refineries here.
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No. 35.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS. [Answered by No. 37.]
Downing Street, December 28, 1904. WITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 24th of June, and to previous correspondence on the subject of the regulation of the sugar trade of Hong Kong, under the Brussels Sugar Convention, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, to be laid before the Commissioners of Customs, the enclosed copy of a despatch § from the Governor of Hong Kong, forwarding copies of an Ordinance to give effect to Article VIII. of the Convention, and a draft of Regulations drawn up under that Ordinance.
2. Mr. Lyttelton would feel much obliged for any observations or suggestions which the Commissioners may be good enough to offer on the Ordinance and Regulations.
3. With regard to the latter he would observe that Regulation 5 require some amendment to meet cases such as that of Japan, where candied sugar appears to is bounty-fed, but raw sugar is not. As the regulation now stands, Hong Kong would apparently be obliged to exclude Japanese raw sugar, which receives no bounty.
• No. 30.
↑ No. 33.
‡ No. 28.
§ No. 31.
MEMORANDUM AS TO THE EXISTENCE OF A BOUNTY ARISING FROM EXCESSIVE SURTAX IN THE COUNTRIES COVERED BY THE BRITISH APPEAL.
(1) Philippines.
All the evidence available goes to show that the existing surtax in the Philippines cannot in any way lead to a bounty on sugar whether raw or refined.
Such a bounty can only arise where a considerable home consumption of sugar enables the manufacturers to obtain a large profit in the home market by the enhanced prices which the high surtax renders it possible to obtain. But in the Philippines there is no such home market. So far as our information goes there are no refineries in operation in the islands and the refined sugar required for consumption is imported and consequently pays the import duty. There is reason to believe that this imported sugar is actually to a large extent Philippine sugar refined in Hong Kong and elsewhere, so that the duty is rather of the nature of a consumption tax on native sugar than a protective duty. This is distinctly stated in the Commercial Notes prefixed to the February, 1904, issue of the Monthly Summary of the Commerce of the Philippines:-
"All our refined sugar comes from Hong Kong. We ship the raw product to the British Metropolis (sic), and they return the refined article to us, and the local consumer pays freight both ways, and the cost of running it through the foreign sugar machine. The most prominent candy manufacturers in America buy their sugar in America. We need a sugar refinery."
The non-existence of any working sugar refineries has been confirmed by tele- graphic communication with His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Iloilo and His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Manila. The former telegraphs that there is one small refinery at Manila, but the latter states that no refineries have been working for four years.
No official estimates are available of the production of raw sugar in the islands, but the following statement shows the exports for the last four years of " raw or brown sugar."
United States
1900.
1901.
1902,
1903.
Exporx to-
Metric tons.
2,154
Metric tons.
5,227
Metric tona.
5,122
Metric tons. 29,323
Hong Kong
36,038
23,887
53,979
16,132
United Kingdom
8,880
6,364
Japan ...
13,286
27,774
16,771
32,721
Other Countries
4,851
16,387
7,155
Total
65,209
36,888
98,623
85,331
The exports to "other countries" are mainly exports to China. It will be observed that the direct exports to the United Kingdom were nil in two of the above years. From what has been already said it will be realised that the exports of refined sugar are practically negligible. (They amounted to about 20 tons in 1903.)
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