CO129-521-12 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 2-4-1930 - 16-6-1930 — Page 130

Any further communication should be

addressed to:-

THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,

the address given opposite.

The following letter and number should

be quoted:

C.R.T. 1504/30.

Telegraphic Address:

COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.

COPY.

Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria.

IMMEDIATE

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COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES

DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

LONDON, S.W.1.

9th April, 1930.

Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 5th April

(No. F 1754/37/10) on the subject of the proposed agreement

relating to Hong Kong and the Chine se Maritime Customs

Administration, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state

that they concur in the terms of paragraphs 1 and 3 of the

draft telegram which Mr. Secretary Henderson proposes to

send to Sir Miles Lampson.

They would suggest, however, for Mr. Secretary

Henderson's consideration that some alteration might be made

to the second paragraph of the suggested reply since the

proposed agreement does not amount to a Customs union in the

ordinary sense of that term, but has for its purpose merely

to allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to collect duty at

Hong Kong on goods destined for consumption in China itself.

If, nevertheless, Mr. Secretary Henderson considers it

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

S.W.1.

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