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submits that the the United States have

in

639

never

other

themselves claimed the full execution of the third Article of the cheaty of 1880, that fact doce not-

any way

invalidate its operativeness when appealed to, either by that country, or any. under the favoured nation clause. The dual- nature of the Customs services exercised in. China, at Treaty Ports, is thoroughly recognized

Committee, but, in their judgment,

by my

where contact between the Native bustoms and the Imperial Maritime Customs occurs, cargo

purely

Chinese (i . C . intended to be dealt with

solely between Natives and in hansit to non

and should be, controlled and.

Treaty Ports, ) is,

by the Chinese native customs, but all other

cargo Native

or

Foreign,

is under the direction

of the Imperial Maritime Customs whose Tariff is regulated by Treaty. Otherwise it

seems

to

my

Committee that all advantaged

if Treaty Tariff

coor

be abrogated by

the

simple action of the Chinese Government; at will, electing to favour its Nationals

their produce under a

duties

by levying favourable Fariff,

or

and does not the fact that

such