CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931 — Page 65

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(c) Chinese bulk cargo, under Chinese Customs documents, which is imported into Hongkong from a treaty port in China, and which is re-exported from Hongkong to the same or another treaty port in China within one year of its arrival in Hongkong, shall be readmitted into China free of import duty, provided that it remains in its original condition. It shall also be readmitted into China free of coast trade duty if coast trade duty is hereafter abolished. Should such cargo fail to be re-exported from Hongkong within the specified time limit, it shall be regarded as having lost its native status and be treated accordingly.

In this Article "foreign goods" means non-Chinese goods, and "treaty port" includes the existing treaty ports and self-opened ports and any place in China now or hereafter declared by the Mohawk the Chinese Government as a place to which foreign shipping may trade.

ARTICLE XVII.

For the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony the Hongkong Government will select, in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs, certain places of entry for goods or live stock. Whenever it is found that any goods or live stock have been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents the Hongkong Government may seize such goods or live stock as security for the payment of such dues as may be mutually agreed upon. If such dues are not paid, the Hongkong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by proceedings against the owner or by sale of the goods or live stock.

ARTICLE XVIII.

The Chinese Maritime Customs will endeavour to prevent the illicit entry into the Colony from China of opium, compounds of opium, extracts of opium, and other dangerous drugs, and of intoxicating liquors, dutiable light oils, and tobacco, and of any other article which on importation into the Colony is subject to restriction or liable to import duty, and will co-operate with the Hongkong Government in controlling the traffic in these articles by sea, land, and air.

The Hongkong Government will endeavour 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, land, and air.

ARTICLE XIX.

For the promotion of accurate knowledge and in the interests of the Chinese revenue

the Hongkong Government will, so far as the conditions of the free port admit of it, collect and publish statistics of imports and exports.