CO129-521-12 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 2-4-1930 - 16-6-1930 — Page 189

Any further communication should be

addressed to:-

RECEIVED

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THE ASSISTANT SECRETARI COL. OF FIBERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES

at the address given opposite.

COL.OFFICEERCIAL

The following letter and number should

be quoted:-

C.RT. 477/30.

Telegraphic Address:

COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.

Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria.

DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

LONDON, S.W.1.

4th March, 1930.

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Sir,

1

With reference to the Inter-Departmental meeting held at

the Colonial Office on the 20th February to consider the

proposed Customs Agreement between China and Hong Kong, I am

directed by the Board of Trade to state that they have examined

further the point raised by their represent. tive at that

meeting regarding the wording of Article 9 of the Agreement.

This article as originally drafted provided that goods

landed in Hong Kong in the course of transmission from one

treaty port in China to another should, with certain exceptions

at the discretion of the Chinese Customs, be placed in bonded

warehouses agreed upon between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs, in order to secure readmission into

China free of import duty. The provision for bonded warehouses.

disappears from Article 9 of the draft Agreement as revised and

there is substituted a provision that all such goods in their

original packages, shall he admitted into China free of import

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

D.7.1.

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