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The special case mentioned above is that of the local trade between Hon kong and Canton, the West River, Swatow, Anoy, Foochow, Macao, and certain small places on the neigh- bouring coast of Kowng Tung. The great mass of this trade, the number of persons concerned in it, the small value of many of the lots, and the constant arrivals of steamers, launches and junks, would seem to make it impossible to carry out a system of permits for each consignment, or even a system of passing the cargo of each ship as a whole before unloading, without largely increasing the staff of the Imports and Ex- ports Departaent and causing considerable inconvenience to the public. The import statements required by Rule 26 will supply! particulars of the cargo carried, the delivery statements re- quired by Condition (8) will enable the goods to be traced, and the necessity of obtaining permits for the exportation of any articles which are intended for transhipment will fur- nish an additional check on practically all the cargo which is likely to come from Black List firme. In any case the working of the system will be carefully watched and it can be altered if it gives rise to any ajuses, Each licence of this class will be 11.4ited to the place or places to which the vessels to be covered by it ply.
Paragraph (4) of Rule 10 demands explanation as it is a departure from the ge..eral principle of preventing all exporta- tion to non-White List firme. Its justification must be
sought for in two facts, One is that the volume of chinese local trade is so large, and the consignees are so many and so widely scattered, t.at a White ist System is an impossibility
in this cage. The second is that purely Chinese trade is as a rule easily distinguishable to any person with a little ex-
perience, and any suspicious cargo will, under section 5 of the ordinanoe, be refused and export permit. It will be no-
ticed.
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