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20 AUG 10
On the 9th June 1885 a Treaty of Peace,
Friendship and Commerce was concluded at Tientsin
between France and China, in which it was stip- ulated:- that Passports should be issued to French and other residents in Tonkin to enable
them to cross the frontier into China, and to
Chinese to enable them to cross the frontier
into Tonkin (Article IV); that Frontier Trade should be permitted to French citizens, at cer- tain points to be afterwards determined, where French Merchants should have liberty to establish themselves on the same conditions as at the open ports; that the conditions of the Frontier Trade should be laid down in a Special Regulation to be annexed to the Treaty and that the duties payable
on merchandize crossing the frontier should be
inferior to those levied under the actual Tariff applicable to foreign Commerce, but that these duties should not apply to trade across the frontier from Tonkin to Kwang-Tong, nor to the ports already opened by Treaty (Article VI).
The Colonial Office having been asked for
their views on the subject of this Treaty, re- plied that they sew nothing in it which appeared to conflict with Treaty engagements of China to- wards Great Britain. (July 18th 1885).
Mr. O'Conor, Her Majesty's Minister at Pe-
king touched upon this subject during the nego-
tiations of the Treaty, when the Chinese Govern-
ment informed him that the reduction of duty was
confined
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