CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3] — Page 24

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

.. alluye of tantalum and ores containing

Tungsten alloys.

(B) Tungsten filaments for electric lamps.

(B) Tungsten ores (including ferberite, hubnerite,

scheelite, and wolframite).

(B) Tungsten compounds.

(B) Vanadium.

Samples of no commercial value of steel articles for which a Steel exemption certificato is ordinarily required by the Customs Authorities may be exported by sample post itbont licence, provided the exemption certificate is rloved in the sample packet. Such certificates are obtain- able from the Cutlers' Company, Sheffield, or from one of the following Chambers of Commerce:-

Belfast,

Birmingham, Glasgow,

Liverpool,

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

In any case of doubt, however, exporters are advised to apply for a Privy Council licence, which should be enclosed in the sample packet as indicated above in the case of certificates. If neither a Privy Council licence nor certifi- cate is enclosed, the sample packet is liable to detention, 4. (b) The following goods are excluded from these arrangements and samples of such goods, whether possessing a commercial value or not, may not be exported by parec post or by shipment unless and until a Privy Council licence has been obtained. Samples of no commercial value may, however, be exported by sample post without licence or certificate.

(A) Aeroplane Dope.

(A) Aircraft of all kinds and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with aircraft.

(A) Aluminium, alloys of aluminium, and manufactures

of aluminium, or of its alloys.

(A) Aluminium powder.

(A) Bandruche skin.

(A) Bayonets and their component parts.

(A) Cannon and other ordnance and their component

parte.

(A) Cartridges, charges of all kinds and their com-

ponent parts, and tools, appurtenances and accessories for the filling and repair of rifle and shot gun cartridges.

(A) Casein and preparations thereof.

(A) Cerium and its alloys.

(A) Cinchona bark, its alkaloids, and their salts and

preparations of any of these substances

(A) Cinematograph films.

(A) Cocaine and its salts and preparations.

(A) Compasses (other than ships' compasses) and their

component parts.

(A) Diamonds suitable for industrial purposes.

(A) Emetin and its salts.

(A) Eucaine hydrochloride, eucaine (benzamine), lactate

and their preparations.

(B) Ferro-eerium,

taining rubber, jellies containing rubber, and any other preparations containing rubber, and also balata, gutta percha, and the following varieties of rubber, viz., Borneo, Guayule, Jelutong, Palembang, Pontianac, and all other substances containing caoutchouc,

(B) Rubber, gutta percha or balata, goods made wholly or partly of, not otherwise specifically prohibited (A) Santonin and its preparations. (A) Salvarsan.

(A) Silk, raw, and all threads, yarns and twists thereof. (A) Silk, Tussah and artificial, threads, yarns and

twists of.

(A) Bilk waste of all kinds (including artificial silk waste) and all threads, yarns and twists thereof, including noils and noil yarus.

(A) Swords and their component parts.

(B) Thorium, oxide and salts of.

(A) Tm and alloys of tin.

DESTINATIONS TO WHICH GOODS ARE PROHIBITED.

The destinations to which the goods in the foregoing lists are prohibited are indicated by the letters (A) (B) and (C), and are as follows:--

(1) Goods marked (A) to all destinations.

(2) Goods marked (B) to all ports and destinations abroad other than ports and destinations in British Possessions and Protectorates.

(3) Goods marked (C) to all destinations in European and Asiatic Russia, and in other Foreign Countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean, except France and French Possessions, Italy and Italian Possessions, and Portugal, and to all ports in any such Foreign countries.

N.B. Samples of the goods mentioned in List 4 (a) also require a licence for export to prohibited destina- tions by whatever means they are despatched.

UNDERTAKING AND CERTIFICATES.

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5. The undertaking and certificate referred to paragraphs 2 (b) (i) and 4 (b) (iii), and in the note to paragraph 3 (a) (ii) is in the following form:—

To The Secretary,

Chamber of Commerce

I hereby give my undertaking that the goods contained in the packages specified in the Schedule below are commercial samples of the description indicated, and that if they are allowed to be exported without licence they shall not be sold, or otherwise disposed of to any person, firm or com- pany, without the previous consent in writing of the War Trade Department. I am prepared to furnish any proof which you may require as to the actual contents of the packages or as to the ultimate disposal of such contents.

Detailed Description of

contents, showing

each item separate.

Number of Packages

Marks.

3

4/1919.

22

Teilukal from the Secretary of State for the Colonies

to the officer administering the Government of long kong.

(Sent 11. a.m., 11th January, 1919.)

Your telegram 8th January import prohibitions have not been witodraw but since armistice general licences have been issued allowing importation of any quantity of meerous articles including followingaerated mineral and taule waters almonds apparel not waterproofed works of art baskets metal oaths live birds bladders casings sausage akina brooms brushes cement fresh flowers leather gloves hats comets horns hoofs vegetable ivory linen yana mpps nuts oilcloth perfumery pictures prints

furs engravings photographe manufacturces of skins and canned pottled preserved fruit soap gum copal gum kauri.

LONG.

(B) Ferro-chrome.

(A) Ferro-manganese.

(A) Ferro-molybdenum.

(B) Ferro-titanium.

(B) Ferro-vanadium.

(A) Field Glasses and their component parts.

(A) Firearms and their component parts and tools, appurtenances and accessories for use in connec tion therewith.

(A) Glass for optical instruments

(A) Glycerine and preparations containing glycerine not

otherwise specifically prohibited.

(A) Heliographe and their component parts.

(A) Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of Munitions of War, for the manufacture or repairs of arms

or of war

material for use on land or 368.

(A) Implemente for cutting or fixing barbed wire.

(A) Linen thread

(A) Linen yarn.

(A) Magnetos and component parts thereof.

(A) Mica block, mica sheets and mica splittings.

(A) Neo-Balvarian.

(B) Nickel, its orea, alloys and manufactures (except

nickel-plated goods not otherwise prohibited).

(A) Novocain and its preparations.

(B) Nux vomica alkaloids and their preparations,

(A) Opium and its preparations.

(A) Opium alkaloids and their salts and preparatione. (A) Platinum, salts of.

(A) Radium and its compounds.

(A) Range finders and their component parts.

(C) Rock crystal.

B) Rubber (raw, waste and reclaimed). Solutions con-

(Signature).

1 hereby certify that after consideration of all the evidence which I require for the purpose, I am satisfied that the goods contained in the packages specified in the above Schedule are commercial samples of a description which may be exported without licence in accordance with the terms of the letters addressed by the War Trade Department to the Associated Chambers of Commerce on 9th August, 1916, 3rd December, 1916, 17th January, 1918, and 5th November, 1918 (W.T.D._7117/16 8.), and such supplementary instructions of the Department (if any) ae are applicable to the case.

Date.

Secretary..

Chamber of Commerce.

6. Copies of the amended Post Office declarations (D) and (9) referred to at 2 (a) (iii) and 2 (b) (ii) way ba obtained on application to Chambers of CommETCO.

7. These arrangements do not apply to the export of samples destined for Switzerland; and Privy Council licences must be obtained for all samples which are to be despatched to that country otherwise than by the sample post.

8. Particular attention is drawn to the Order dated 2nd May, 1918, made by the Army Council under Defence of the Realm Regulation 24 B requiring that on and after 27th May, 1918, no goods or commodities other than printed, written or illustrated matter may be sent by sample post or parcel post to any neutral country in Europe or to any allied country in Europe for retransmission to = neutral country in Europe unless a permit for this purpose has been previously obtained from the Chief Postal Censor (M.I. 9d.), Strand House, Carey Street, W.C. 2.

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