CO129-527-17 Export of lard and ham from Hong Kong and China 10-9-1930 - 27-4-1931 — Page 7

Copy.

F 4370/4370/10).

No. 527 (9/5W)

Copy to:

Commercial

Counsellor.

BRITISH LEGATION,

PEKING.

28th April, 1930.

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Sir,

On receipt of your despatch Number 947 of the 11th of

October last (F 4979/2882/10/1929) on the subject of the

Regulations governing the importation of articles of food into

the United Kingdom, I forwarded copies of the correspondence

enclosed therein to His Majesty's Commercial Secretary at

Shanghai, and asked him to take an early opportunity of

communicating to Mr. P.W. Tsou, the head of the Shanghai

Bureau of Inspection and Testing of Commercial Commodities,

the substance of the Ministry of Health's reply to the

enquiries he had addressed to the Ministry, regarding the

ineligibility of Chinese products and the conditions of entry

of animal products generally into the United Kingdom, and to

hand him copies of the relevant United Kingdom regulations

enclosed in that despatch.

I have now received from the Acting Commercial Counsellor

the despatch, of which a copy is enclosed, reporting the steps

that he has taken in the matter. It will be seen from this

despatch that Mr. Jamieson has gone into the question of the

Inspection Bureau's activities very thoroughly with Mr. Tsou.

The subject of the degree of dependence that can be placed

on official examinations of foodstuffs in the country of export

is a highly technical one, on which the Ministry of Health is

3.

The Right Honourable

Arthur Henderson, M.P.,

etc., etc., etc.,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

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