CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931 — Page 64

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ARTICLE XIV.

During the currency of this Agreement the Hongkong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain in the city of Victoris an office for the use of the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner of the Chinese Customs Service appointed as aforesaid to reside in Hongkong; but the Chinese Maritime Customs shall not maintain any sub-office or any Customs station in the territory of the Colony of Hongkong.

ARTICLE XV.

Revenue vessels of the Chinese Maritime Customs functioning in Chinese waters adjacent to those of the Colony of Hongkong shall not make use of Hongkong waters in the exercise of their preventive duties except in special cases, and then only in pursuance of a request by the Hongkong Superintendent of Imports and Exports.

ARTICLE XVI.

(a) Chinese goods, under Chinese Customs documents, which are imported into Hongkong from a treaty port in China, and which are re-exported to the same or another treaty port in China within one year of their arrival in Hongkong, shall be readmitted into China free of import duty, provided they remain unaltered in their original packages and with the same marks as at the time of importation. Permission, however, may be obtained from the Chinese Maritime Customs for the repacking, but not reconditioning, of such goods and for the addition of other marks to the original ones. Such goods shall also be readmitted into China free of coast trade duty if coast trade duty is hereafter abolished. Should such goods fail to be re-exported from Hongkong within the specified time limit they shall be regarded as having lost their native status and be treated accordingly.

(b) Foreign goods which are shipped from one treaty port in China for another treaty port in China with an Exemption Certificate, or under any other arrangement intended to free such goods from import duty at the port of destination, and which are landed in Hongkong and are re-exported to the same or another treaty port in China within one year of their arrival in Hongkong, shall be readmitted into China free of import duty, provided they remain unaltered in their original packages and with the same marks as at the time of importation. Permission, however, may be obtained from the Chinese Maritime Customs for the repacking, but not reconditioning, of such goods and for the addition of other marks to the original ones. If any such goods are re-exported from Hongkong to some place other than China, they shall be entitled to a drawback of the amount of import duty originally paid by them upon importation into China, provided that such goods are re-exported from Hongkong within three years from the date of their original importation into China, and provided that the drawback privilege still remains in force at the treaty ports in China.

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