CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 457

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ARTICLE VIII.

Foreign goods carried by junks or launches registered as in Articles V and VI clearing from Hongkong, Victoria Harbour, for non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province may acquit themselves of import and transit duties before departure and may be granted transit passes. Report for Customs purposes must be made at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Hongkong Government. Junks and launches carrying transit pass cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at the Customs stations specified on the pass.

ARTICLE IX,

Goods passing through the Colony under Customs documents from one treaty port in China to another shall maintain their original status and shall receive the benefit of their original Customs documents at the port of destination, subject to the following conditions:-

(a) The Customs Authorities 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 Government of Hongkong and the Customs Authorities. Full facilities to supervise goods in such warehouses shall be given to the Customs Authorities and those Authorities may require goods to be forwarded within a reasonable specified time.

ARTICLE X.

For the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony the Government of Hongkong will select in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs certain ports of entry for merchandise including livestock.

Whenever it is found that any merchandise or livestock has been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents the Government of Hongkong will detain such goods or livestock as security for the payment of such dues and penalties as may be mutually agreed upon,

ARTICLE XI.

(a) The Chinese Maritime Customs will take active steps to prevent the illicit entry into the Colony from China of intoxicating liquor, opium, compound of opium, morphine, and tobacco and will co-operate with the Government of Hongkong in controlling the traffic in these articles by sea and by land.

(b) The Hongkong Government will continue to take active steps to prevent the illicit entry into China of arms and munitions of war, and will co-operate with the Chinese Government in controlling the traffic in such articles by sea and by land.

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ARTICLE XII.

For the promotion of accurate knowledge and in the interests of the Chinese revenue the Government of Hongkong will, so far as the conditions of the free port admit of it, collect and publish statistics of imports and exports.

ARTICLE XIII.

Office and warehouse accommodation for the examination and storage of goods carried by the Kowloon-Canton Railway and for the payment of duties thereon will be provided at reasonable rates by the Government of Hongkong. Such duties will be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs under regulations to be mutually agreed upon, under the following general conditions:-

(a) Goods leaving Kowloon for China by train stopping at no intermediate station in

British territory shall pay Customs import duty prior to departure.

(b) Goods arriving at Kowloon from China uncovered by Customs documents shall

pay Customs export duty prior to release.

(c) Goods leaving Kowloon by train that stops at intermediate stations in British territory and goods placed on the train at stations in British territory other than the Kowloon Station may pay duty either at Kowloon or at the Chinese frontier station at Shumchun.

(d) Goods not covered by Customs documents, which leave Shumchun for stations in British territory other than the Kowloon Station, shall pay duty at Shumchun.

(e) Goods carried from any station on the British section of the railway to any station in China and goods taking out transit documents from the office of the Chinese Maritime Customs in Hongkong shall pay according to the Revised Import Tariff of China of 1902, or future revisions thereof, and such payment of import duty and transit dues (if any) shall free the goods to place

of destination.

(f) Goods carried from any station in China on the railway to any station on the British section of the railway and goods taking out transit documents for export from China shall pay according to the Treaty Export Tariff of 1858, or future revisions thereof, and such payment shall free the goods to place of destination on the railway.

(g) It is agreed that for purposes of payment of duty on rail-borne goods to the Chinese Maritime Customs in Hongkong the rate of exchange between the Haikuan tael and Hongkong currency shall not be at a less favourable rate than the rate in force at the Canton Custom House.

ARTICLE XIV.

If in any application to the Chinese Maritime Customs in Hongkong a false declaration is made regarding quantity, quality, nature, or value of any dutiable goods or articles carried

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