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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(30098)]
No. 1.
200
Rece
OCT 07
[September 18.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to China Association.
Foreign Office, September 18, 1907. I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been in correspondence with the Chinese Government on the subject of the practice to be adopted in the case of foreign goods conveyed between open ports and the recently opened marts in the interior of Manchuria.
It has been arranged that exemption certificates shall be issued by the Imperial Maritime Customs on all foreign goods on which import duty has been paid at the open port of entry, to enable them to be conveyed without further payment to the inland open mart of destination.
It was originally proposed by the Chinese Government that a period of one month should be fixed within which the native Customs stations in the various open marts should, after verification of the goods, affix their seals and return the exemption certificates to the issuing port to be cancelled, so as to guard against sales en route.
Sir J. Jordan considered, however, that the period of one month might prove inadequate, in view of the distance of some of the marts and the various means of transport which might be employed. As a result of his representations, the Chinese Government have now agreed to the alteration to two months of the period for the duration of such exemption certificates.
1 am, &c.
(Signed)
F. A. CAMPBELL.
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