CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929 — Page 53

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Junks and lighters registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs may be towed be- tween Hong Kong and non-open ports as defined in Article V by steam or motor vessels duly registered the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navi- ARTICLE I

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gation Regulations, and in that case such junks, lighters, and other vessels will be treated

as junks under sail and will be required to conform to the rules governing junk traffic,

and the procedure prescribed in Article V of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII.

Lighters towed by steam or motor vessels to treaty ports in China may have their hatches sealed by the Chinese Maritime Customs prior to departure and such vessels may

then proceed direct to their destination. The Chinese Maritime Customs reserve the

right to require the launch to call at a Customs station en route for search. 人 TOWING VESSEL

ARTICLE VIII.

Foreign goods carried by steam or motor vessels, or by junks or lighters, registered as in Articles Vand VI, clearing from Hong Kong for non-open ports as defined in Article V, shall acquit themselves of import duty before departure, and may, if so desired, acquit themselves also of transit dues and be granted transit passes, Report for Customs purposes must be made at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Hong Kong Government. All vessels carrying transit pass cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at the Customs stations specified on the pass. Foreign goods carried by steam or motor vessels clearing from Hong Kong for treaty ports may also, subject to examination, BEFORE acquit themselves of import duty before departure.

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ARTICLE IX.

Goods of any description manufactured in the Colony of Hong Kong and its new territories entering China, whether forwarded to any part of China other than the por of entry or not, shall be treated no less favourably as regards payment of any duties charges, taxes or other payments of any kind than any goods of a simila dues, internal charge in China, so that the total payments on such goods shall not be documents from one treaty port in China to another, shall maintain their original status Goods, whether Chinese or foreign, passing through the Colony under Chinese Customs

and shall receive the benefit of their original Customs documents at the port of destina- more than the total payments upon any goods of a similar nature manufactured in China including the payments, if any, on raw or semi-manufactured material used in suction, subject to the following conditions:-

manufacture.

ARTICLE XI.

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(a) The Chinese Maritime Customs shall be given full facilities for supervising goods in transit without landing or transhipment during such period as such goods remain within the waters of the Colony.

(b) Goods landed pending transmission by sea or by railway and goods brought by railway for transmission by sea shall be placed in such bonded warehouses as may be agreed upon between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs. In cases, however, where goods are securely packed so as to be capable of being suitably sealed if necessary, are marked with a distinc- tive mark for each consignment, and are numbered in such a way as to be easily identifiable, the Customs Authorities may, at their discretion, waive the obligation of such goods to be placed in a bonded warehouse.

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