CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930 — Page 489

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"vessels, other or greater than those levied on Chinese vessels

"engaged in the said trade, or on the passengers or goods "carried by such Chinese vessels respectively."

ARTICLE VI. In the Minister's draft reference to the Inland

Waters Steam Navigation Regulations has been deleted, and a

clause added similar to the concluding clause of Article V.

quoted above.

ARTICLE VII unchanged.

ARTICLE VIII. The phrase

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"Foreign goods" in the printed

draft has in the two instances where it occurs in this Article

been altered in the Minister's draft into the single word

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"Goods After the words "be granted transit passes" the

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Minister's draft contains the following clause, which does

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not appear in the printed draft"- "at rates and with privileges

"not less favourable than those applied or accorded to goods

"clearing under similar circumstances from Canton or any other

"treaty port for a non-open port as defined in Article V."

ARTICLE IX dealing with treatment of goods passing through

Hongkong from one treaty port to another has been altered out

of recognition. In the first place, the clause stipulating

that goods landed pending subsequent shipment are to be bonded

is deleted, and so too is all reference to bonding and bonded

warehouses under Customs supervision. In the second place, the

clause giving the Customs the right to supervise goods in transit

which are not landed or transhipped, is likewise deleted.

Thirdly, the Minister's draft extends the time limit within

which Chinese goods in transit may be transhipped from three

months of the printed draft to one year. Fourthly, the Minister's

draft stipulates that foreign goods in transit through Hongkong,

if re-exported within one year "to some place other than China

"they shall be entitled to a drawback of the amount of import

"duty/