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Enclosure

Sir,

Government House,

Hongkong 10th May, 1916.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th April, relating to the working of the Hongkong Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, Ordinance

No. 32 of 1915.

2.

I gather that the following are the principal difficul

-ties and anomalies to which you refer:-

(a)

(b)

The difficulty of dealing with the large volume

of legitimate imports by Chinese firms in Shanghai. The fact that cargo is allowed in some cases to be exported from Hongkong to Chinese firme in Shanghai

which are not on the White List.

(c)

E* H* BLUSEL

.IeransuĻIuano

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3.

(a)

The practice of the China Navigation Co. in re- quiring declarations from exporters of cargo which

is to be transhipped in Hongkong and the unreliabi- lity of declarations by Chinese exporters.

The limited significance of certificates of import-

ation.

I quite agree that the inclusion in the ordinary

White List of Chinese firms who have hitherto had no direct relations with Europe or America would open the door to wholesale evasion of the White List system, which indeed appears to me to be workable only as a means of regulating the ocean trade in Western producte as distinguished from the Chinese coast trade. The objections to

ir Everard H. Fraser,K.C.M.G.,

His Majesty's Consul-General,

SHANGHAI.

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