This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
81
[April 13.]
SECTION 3.
(No. 74.) My Lord,
Mr. Townley to the Marquess of Lansdowne.~(Received April 13.)
Peking, February 25, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a note which I have addressed to the Chinese Government, in accordance with the instructions contained in your Lordship's despatch No. 260 of the 15th December, 1902, asking for information as to their interpretation and views of certain Articles of the Commercial Treaty signed at Shanghae on the 5th September, 1902.
I have, &c. (Signed)
WALTER TOWNLEY.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Your Highness,
Mr. Townley to Prince Ch'ing.
Peking, February 14, 1903. BY the 8th section of the VIIIth Article of the Commercial Treaty signed at Shanghae on the 5th September, 1902, it was agreed that, in order to meet the loss of li-kin revenue on internal trade, the Chinese Government should be at liberty to impose a consumption tax on articles of Chinese origin not intended for export. It was stipulated that this tax should be levied only at places of consumption, and not on goods while in transit, and the Chinese Government undertook that the arrangements for its collection should in no way interfere with foreign goods or with native goods for export.
I have been instructed by His Majesty's Government to inquire of your Highness what procedure the Chinese Government intend to adopt in order that the above stipulation may be carried into effect.
Section 9 of the VIIIth Article of the Treaty imposes an excise duty equivalent to double the import duty, as laid down in the Protocol of 1901, on machine-made yarn and cloth manufactured in China, with a rebate of the import duty and two-thirds of the import surtax on raw cotton imported from foreign countries, and a rebate of all duties, including consumption tax, paid on Chinese raw cotton used in mills in China. It further provides that Chinese machine-made yarn or cloth having paid excise is to be free of export duty, export surtax, coast trade duty, and consumption tax.
The same principle and procedure are to be applied to all other products of foreign type turned out by machinery whether by foreigners at the open ports or by Chinese anywhere in China, and the excise is to be collected through the Imperial Maritime Customs.
His Majesty's Government desire information as to the arrangements which the Chinese Government propose to make for the collection of this excise at the open ports and in the interior; and also with regard to the procedure for the refund of duties on articles used in the production of machine-made goods of foreign type.
A third point on which His Majesty's Government desire information is the following:-
It was arranged between the negotiators of the Treaty that the revenues derived from the surtaxes provided by Article VIII should be paid to the provincial authorities, but that out of this revenue each province should be obliged to remit to Peking the same contribution as that hitherto remitted by it out of its li-kin collections, and that the provinces should also provide as hitherto out of these surtax funds whatever may be necessary for the service of the foreign loans for which li-kin is partly pledged.
His Majesty's Government desire information as to the actual amounts of the remittances which the provinces concerned will be required to make to Peking out of the surtax funds.
I shall be glad if your Highness will supply me with information on the above points for transmission to His Majesty's Government.
I avail, &c.
(Signed) WALTER TOWNLEY.
(1934
蒜一 -3]
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.,
No. 1.
81
[April 13.]
SECTION 3.
(No. 74.) My Lord,
Mr. Townley to the Marquess of Lansdowne.~(Received April 13.)
Peking, February 25, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a note which I have addressed to the Chinese Government, in accordance with the instructions contained in your Lordship's despatch No. 260 of the 15th December, 1902, asking for information as to their interpretation and views of certain Articles of the Commercial Treaty signed at Shangbae on the 5th September, 1902.
I have, &c. (Signed)
WALTER TOWNLEY.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Your Highness,
Mr. Townley to Prince Ch'ing.
Peking, February 14, 1903. BY the 8th section of the VIIIth Article of the Commercial Treaty signed at Shanghae on the 5th September, 1902, it was agreed that, in order to meet the loss of li-kin revenue on internal trade, the Chinese Government should be at liberty to impose a consumption tax on articles of Chinese origin not intended for export. It was stipulated that this tax should be levied only at places of consumption, and not on goods while in transit, and the Chinese Government undertook that the arrangements for its collection should in no way interfere with foreign goods or with native goods for export.
I have been instructed by His Majesty's Government to inquire of
your Highness what procedure the Chinese Government intend to adopt in order that the above stipula- tion may be carried into effect.
Section 9 of the VIIIth Article of the Treaty imposes an excise duty equivalent to double the import duty, as laid down in the Protocol of 1901, on machine-made yarn and cloth manufactured in China, with a rebate of the import duty and two-thirds of the import surtax on raw cotton imported from foreign countries, and a rebate of all duties, including consumption tax, paid on Chinese raw cotton used in mills in China. It further provides that Chinese machine-made yarn or cloth having paid excise is to be free of export duty, export surtax, coast trade duty, and consumption tax.
The same principle and procedure are to be applied to all other products of foreign type turned out by machinery whether by foreigners at the open ports or by Chinese anywhere in China, and the excise is to be collected through the Imperial Maritime Customs.
His Majesty's Government desire information as to the arrangements which the Chinese Government propose to make for the collection of this excise at the open ports and in the interior; and also with regard to the procedure for the refund of duties on articles used in the production of machine-made goods of foreign type.
A third point on which His Majesty's Government desire information is the fol- lowing:-
It was arranged between the negotiators of the Treaty that the revenues derived from the surtaxes provided by Article VIII should be paid to the provincial authorities, but that out of this revenue each province should be obliged to remit to Peking the same contribution as that hitherto remitted by it out of its li-kin collections, and that the be provinces should also provide as hitherto out of these surtax funds whatever may necessary for the service of the foreign loans for which li-kin is partly pledged.
His Majesty's Government desire information as to the actual amounts of the remit- tances which the provinces concerned will be required to make to Peking out of the surtax funds.
I shall be glad if your Highness will supply me with information on the above points
for transmission to His Majesty's Government.
I avail, &c.
(Signed) WALTER TOWNLEY.
(1934
蒜一 -3]
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