CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 183

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imported into China by the Mandarin

to

Road from Kang

6 long-tokeon. The provisions of this Article are not incorporated in the Treaty of 1886. Article VII & the nonal

& favored Nation

clause, having ales particular reference

concesions that

may be granted by

to

China to other countries situated to the South and South West of the Rinese Empire. The Concessions made under the

be summarised

Convention maybe

follows:

France gaine

( 4 ) & Awe Additional open Pork

(b). A further reduction

& funther.

as

from the

Maritime Customs Tariff on Import of 10% an Export of 6100 %

66

( c ) Duties according to the French

Tonquin Jariff, on all Chinese products destined for other than Chinese Pork which may pass the Frontier.

China

China gaino:

179

(a) the right to export Native grown Opium to Jonqum on payment of taels 20 per picul duty. (b) Jonnage dues at the rate of

5 Candareeno per ton on Merchant vessels using the rivers

Ki- Kong

Ang

де

Kong and has -

bang. These amendments of the Treaty of 1886 bring forcibly home to the Committe the great advantages that France has obtained and which it to her intention to make the most of

most of, judging from the action ohe has taken to control the trade for her

Own

of th

manufactures, to the exclusion all other nationalities. It may however happen that a too restrictive polien will, to come...

- extent, defeat this end.

Commerce

ofCom

For many of the Articles of Com required by the Armamese and Jonquinese better and more cheaply

are

produced chewhere than in France, the

Annanese being for from a wealthy

people

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