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HINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[May 26.]
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C. O.
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TRECE SECTION 115 JUN 08
(No. 192.) Sir,
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 26.)
Peking, April 29, 1908. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 106 of the 28th February, transmitting copies of correspondence with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade relative to the protection of British rade-marks in China, and requesting me to report in regard to the issue of certificates by the Imperial Maritime Customs.
When Trade-Marks Regulations were first issued by the Chinese Government in 1904, the Imperial Maritime Customs opened offices at Shanghae and Tien-tsin under the name of " Board of Commerce, Trade-Mark Registration Department," but, as these Regulations were objected to and no satisfactory rules have yet been agreed upon, the Departments have since that time confined themselves to receiving, filing, and forwarding to the Board of Commerce trade-marks sent in by applicants who are under the impression that by depositing their marks in advance they will be entitled to priority of registration when Regulations are agreed upon and come into force.
At Shanghae no fees are charged. At Tien-tsin, however, a fee of 5 Haikuan taels (15s.), for which a receipt is granted, is charged on each application, not for registration, which, in the absence of Regulations, cannot be effected, but for receiving, filing, and transmitting the marks. The total number of applications received at Tien-tsin amounts, I am informed, to some 260, of which comparatively few are British.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN,
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