month, named certain additional countries as giving
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bounties and at the same time suggested that it was un-
-necessary to issue orders prohibiting importation from
foo 40894 telegram of the 19th. December informed me that the cases
countries which never sent sugar to Hongkong. Your further
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of these named countries, with the exception of Brazil,
were being reconsidered. The order declaring Brazil to be
a bounty-giving country was then gazetted.
4.
This order was subsequently can-
-celled upon receipt of the statement enclosed in your
Circular Despatch of the 24th. May last, which showed that
the Permanent Commission had suspended, pending a further
decision, the imposition of the penal clause of the Con-
-vention against Brazil,
5.
As there were no importations of
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sugar into Hongkong from the Foreign Countries which in
addition to Russia, Denmark and the Argentine Republic,
have been adjudged by the Permanent Commission to be
bounty-giving, viz.;- Roumania, Spain, Japan (candied
sugar only), Chili, and Costa Rica, it was not considered
necessary to issue prohibition orders against those
countries
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