CO129-531-15 Chinese customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 9-7-1931 - 17-1-1932 — Page 128

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COPY:

No.63. (9/5.Y).

SECRET.

Copy to F.0.

BRITISH LEGATION,

PEKING,

11th September, 1931.

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Sir,

With reference to Your Excellency's

despatch, Secret, of the 13th of August,last, on

the subject of certain alterations to the draft

Customs agreement of November 6th, 1930, suggested to you informally by the Inspector-General of

Customs, I have the honour to inform you that I

am not aware of any serious objections to these

amendments.

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2.

The payment of Coast Trade Duty levied

by the aritime Customs on native produce between treaty port and treaty port, was definitely abolished on the 1st of January this year. The

words in Article XVI.(c), quoted in paragraph 2,

of your despatch, would therefore appear to be

unnecessary, as Mr. Maze points out.

3.

As regards the cancellation by the

Chinese Customs of the system of drawbacks on foreign duty-paid imports re-exported abroad, the position under the system in force until

April 1st of this year, was that foreign

goods

His Excellency,

Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.

HONG KONG.