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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

2867

[January 5.]

TREE 26 JAN 30

SECTION 1.

[609]

No. 1.

Sir,

Board of Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received January 5.)

Board of Trade, January 4, 1906.

I AM directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd December, 1905, forwarding copies of despatches, with inclosures, which have been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to the importation of morphia into China.

In reply I am to state that the Board concur with Sir E. Grey in thinking that His Majesty's Government might not improperly consent to the prohibition of the importation of morphia into China on the conditions specified in your letter. They assume that if an agreement is arrived at on the lines suggested, morphia and the necessary instruments, when admitted for medicinal use, will only be charged duty at the rate of 5 per cent, ad valorem, and not at the high rate at present enforced in the case of morphia imported for commercial purposes.

I am, &c.

(Signed)

H. LLEWELLYN SMITH.

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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] CHINA TRADE. CONFIDENTIAL. 2867 [January 5.] TREE 26 JAN 30 SECTION 1. 90 [609] No. 1. Sir, Board of Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received January 5.) Board of Trade, January 4, 1906. I AM directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd December, 1905, forwarding copies of despatches, with inclosures, which have been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to the importation of morphia into China. In reply I am to state that the Board concur with Sir E. Grey in thinking that His Majesty's Government might not improperly consent to the prohibition of the importation of morphia into China on the conditions specified in your letter. They assume that if an agreement is arrived at on the lines suggested, morphia and the necessary instruments, when admitted for medicinal use, will only be charged duty at the rate of 5 per cent, ad valorem, and not at the high rate at present enforced in the case of morphia imported for commercial purposes. I am, &c. (Signed) H. LLEWELLYN SMITH. [1830 e-1]

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і : [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] CHINA TRADE. CONFIDENTIAL. 2867 [January 5.] TREE 26 JAN 30 SECTION 1. 90 [609] No. 1. i Sir, Board of Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received January 5.) Board of Trade, January 4, 1906.1* I AM directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd December, 1905, forwarding copies of despatches, with inclosures, which have been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to the importation of morphia into China. In reply I am to state that the Board concur with Sir E. Grey in thinking that His Majesty's Government might not improperly consent to the prohibition of the importation of morphia into China on the conditions specified in your letter. They assume that if an agreement is arrived at on the lines suggested, morphia and the necessary instruments, when admitted for medicinal use, will only be charged duty at the rate of 5 per cent, ad valorem, and not at the high rate at present enforced in the case of morphia imported for commercial purposes. I am, &c. (Signed) H. LLEWELLYN SMITH. [1830 e-1] ch

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