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BOARD OF TRADE,

(Commercial Department)

GWYDYR HOUSE,

WHITEHALL,

LONDON, S.V.

21st October 1910.

Sir: -

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter of the 17th October (No.36200)

transmitting copy of a letter received from Mr. C. Czarnikow,

relative to the importation of Formosen sugar into Hong Kong,

together with a draft of the reply which it is proposed to

return thereto.

In reply, I am to point out that the Hongkong Government

have enacted prohibitive legislation regarding the importa-

tion of bounty-fed sugar into the Colony under the "Sugar

Convention Ordinance No.14 of 1904", in order to give effect

to Article VIII of the Brussels Convention of 1902.

Article 2 of this Ordinance is as follows:-

"When it has been reported by the Fermanent Commission

and

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,