CO129-558-11 Mission of Sir F. Leith-Ross to China- proposals for a Hong Kong - China customs... 29-9-1936 - 30-12-1936 — Page 45

5. Rative produse which is not packed or not properly turked and numbered, and therefore not readily identifiable at port of destination as being the same as that declared at port of shipment, may be transhipped at a foreign port, but shall not be entitled to the privilege of being treated as native produce at port of destination.

6. When native produce declared for transhipment either into steauer or Junk at a foreign port, and accepted as such by the Custoom at original port of clearance, does not reach the Open

ort specified within two months from the date of original shipment, it shell on arrival be regarded as having lost its native status and be treated accordingly. The only exception to this time imit of two months is in the case of mative goods shipped between the Open Forts in the province of Yunnan and other Cpan Ports in China via a foreign port or ports when the time limit allowed shall be four months.

F.B. then failure of goods to arrive at their destination is proved to have been due to special circumstances bayənd the merchant's control the time limit may be extended at the discretion of the Inspector General, to whom such cases are to be reported for decision.

7. when native goods, shipped froz: ona üpen Fort to another Open Port via a foreign port or ports, do not reach the port or destination within the prescribed time limit, or are found to have been repacked en route, they shall be regarded as having lost their native status and be charged import duty at the port of destination, and the original exporter shall be called upon by the Customs at the port of shipment to pay under the terus of his bond the difference betwe interport duties without fine.

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8. when substitution has taken place while the goods are en route from port of shipment to port of destination, the goods shall be confiscated by the Customs at the port of destination without any fine on the original exporter.

9. The Chinese Customs documents, including copies of original Applications, weight wecoranda, etc., covering native produce shipped from one Open ort to another Cpen Port via a foreign port or porta, if declared for transhipment at such foreign port or ports shall be sent by post to the Commissioner of customs at Open Fort or destination. If the goods are declared as through cargo, not for transhipment at a foreign port or ports en route, but to arrive at the Open Port of destination on the original stemmer, all the customs covering dooparašė absil de sent by the steamer concerned in the same manner as is now done for ordinary interport shipants. The Commissioner receiving such documents shall arrange for the proper examination of the goods concerned. where there i cisar discrepancy between the goods documented and th: goods actually landed, Le shell deal with the case either by fine or confiscation ageording to the gravity of the offence and shall report the matter to the Coumissioner at the original port of shipment, so that, if need be, th privilege of coastuise treatment of native produce touching at or transhipped at a foreign port may in future be withheld from th: company or persona concerned.

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