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5. On merchandize brought by sea to Dairen no import duty shall be levied. Import duty according to existing Treaties shall be levied by the Maritime Customs Office on all merchandize or products passing the frontier of the Japanese leased territory into the interior of China.
The Japanese authorities agree to take suitable measures to assist as far as it is possible in the prevention of merchandize passing the frontier of the Japanese leased territory when not provided with a permit or pass by the Maritime Customs Office.
6. When Chinese merchandize or products brought from the interior of China into the Japanese leased territory are shipped from Dairen to other places, they will pay the export duty according to existing Treaties. Produce raised in, and merchandize manu- factured from produce raised in or imported by sea into the Japanese leased territory shall pay no export duty. The duty to be paid by articles manufactured in the Japanese leased territory from materials brought there from the interior of China shall be the same as those paid in the leased territory of Kiao-chau.
7. Chinese merchandize or products brought from Chinese Treaty ports to Dairen shall pay no duty as long as they remain inside Japanese leased territory; but if these Chinese merchandize or products pass the Japanese frontier into the interior of China, they shall pay according to existing Treaties,
8. Chinese merchandize shipped from Dairen, and having paid accordingly export duty, shall be provided with a receipt, on the producing of which it shall pay, on being landed at a Chinese Treaty port, a coast trade duty according to existing Treaties.
9. For Japanese and other non-Chinese merchandize on being shipped to Dairen from a Chinese Treaty port the import duty paid at the latter port shall be refunded by drawback according to Article XXVI of the German-Chinese Treaty of 1861. On being imported to Dairen such merchandize shall pay no duty, as long as it does not pass the Japanese frontier into the interior of China. On being re-exported from Dairen to other places outside China, such merchandize shall pay no export duty.
10. Chinese merchandize or products having been shipped from a Chinese Treaty port to Dairen and reshipped from there to places outside China, shall on this occasion pay no export duty, in case the documentary evidence is produced of their having paid export duty at the Treaty port from which they came.
11. The Maritime Customs Office at Dairen shall take no part in the collection or administration of tonnage dues, lighthouse dues, or port dues.
12. The Customs Tariff in vigour in the Chinese Treaty ports shall be applied likewise by the Maritime Customs Office at Dairen.
13. The Government of Dairen agrees to set apart, for the Maritime Customs Office, sufficient space at Dairen for building offices, lodgings for the staff, with suitable rooms, for garden, stables, and servants' quarters. The amount to be paid for the sale or lease of such ground is to be settled locally by mutual agreement.
14. The Chief of the Customs Office and the members of the staff shall be free from all obligation to act as jurors or assessors or from any other personal services.
15. The aforesaid Maritime Customs Office at Dairen shall be charged likewise exclusively with the granting and issuing of transit passes for merchandize going into the interior of China, as well as for merchandize coming from the interior of China to Dairen; and this office will be charged as well with all and every function, right, or capacity appertaining in the Treaty ports to the so-called Chinese Customs Taotai.
16. For the transit passes mentioned in Article 15 the duty according to existing Treaties ie., half of the amount of the export or import duty--shall be collected by the Maritime Customs Office at Dairen.
17. The procedure to be observed in case of frauds or contraventions committed by merchants against the Maritime Customs rules shall be settled hereafter by a separate agreement; but it is understood in principle that all judicial procedure rests with the Japanese Tribunals at Dairen.
18. In view of the possibility that with the development of commercial activity at Dairen new requirements may arise which are not to be foreseen, it is understood that the present Agreement bears a provisional character; that both parties to it agree to introduce amendments as soon as required for the purpose of remedying inconveniences which may arise in the practical execution of this Agreement.
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Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Agreement respecting the Establishment of a Maritime Customs Office at Dairen,
(Annex B.)
Inland Waters Steam Navigation.
THE Dairen Customs, having been formally authorized to function in Daireu, are now empowered to issue steam navigation certificates. Steamers thus permitted to ply on the inland waters are to be guided generally by the rules and regulations of July and September 1898, and the additional rules of September 1902 and October 1903, but more especially by the regulations herebelow set forth.
2. Steamers about to ply in the inland waters are required to deposit their national papers, foreign or native, with the Customs, and will receive in exchange, on written application, the inland waters certificate. Such certificates are valid for one year, and a fee of 10 tuels is payable on first issue and 2 taels for each annual renewai. Tonnage dues are payable once every four months.
3. Such certificated steamers may ply either (a) freely in the Dairen waters, or (b) according to regulations (1) from Dairen to a place or places inland and back; and (2) from Dairen to a place inland, thence to a Treaty port, thence to a place inland, and thence back to Dairen. On making due report to the local customs or tax office, and paying local dues or duties, they may land or ship cargo or passengers at any recognized places of trade passed in the voyage, but they may not ply between inland places exclusively without special authority. If visiting another Treaty port on any such inland voyage, the customs at such port are to be duly reported to, and all port regulations, national and native, complied with.
4. Whenever certificated steamers quit or return to Dairen, they are to clear from and report to the Dairen Customs, handing in outward and inward manifests of cargo, reporting places to be called at or called at, and paying the prescribed duties. Opium and contraband goods are not to be carried inwards or outwards; if carried, the goods are confiscable, and the vessel subject to a fine of 500 dollars, a second offence entailing withdrawal of inland waters certificate and privileges.
5. The Colenial Government will assist the Dairen Customs to suppress smuggling, more especially the smuggling of opium and contraband.
6. The transmission of Chinese closed mails between Dairen and inland ports shall be free of charge, and the postal administration concerned will arrange a fitting procedure for the transmission of such closed mails through the Japanese leased territory from and to Chinese post-offices outside that territory.
7. The application of the inland waters steam navigation understanding will be restricted to steamers which ply on inland waters not inside the area of the Japanese leased territory,
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