CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 124

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[April 6 18214

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

SECTION BEC

FEG 22 MAY 07

Sir,

Foreign Office to London Chamber of Commerce.*

Foreign Office, April 6, 1907. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, on the subject of the protection of trade-marks in China.

I am to inform you in reply that it has been decided by His Majesty's Govern- ment not to accept the fresh set of Regulations drafted by the Board of Commerce at Peking, and that the suggestion made by His Majesty's Minister at that capital that the negotiations should be based on the draft prepared by the foreign Representatives in April 1905 has been approved.

I am to add that every effort will be made to obtain a settlement of the Regulations. The negotiations have, however, been to some extent delayed while a point was being discussed on which the Powers were at first not all in agreement; and the reports of the last negotiations at Peking show that the foreign Representatives were unable to give their consent to the Regulations as long as the Chinese Government insisted upon the payment of fees which, in the opinion of the Representatives, were on too high a scale, and upon the retention of provisions which conflicted with the extra-territorial rights of foreigners in China.

I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL,

* Also to Manchester Chamber of Commerce, mutatis mutandis,

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