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 46

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LWIVA PROMICZ ZHIPPED FROM CPR PORT T- OPEN PORT

VIA A PORSION PORT

XPORTS.

Native goods may be sent under a duty exemption document in the form of a duplicate Application, duly stamped, from one Open Port to another Open Tort via a foreign port or ports under the following regulations:-

1. Owners of steamers or agents of steamship companies wishing to clear a steamer from one open tort to another Open Port vis a foreign port or ports shall declare to the Customs at the port of clearance the names of the foreign ports to be touched at, and shal, also state in writing whether all the native produce declared for other Open Forts is to be conveyed to ita destination without transhipment. Foreign ports thus touched at must be in direct route between Open Fort of shipment and Open Port of discharge.

N.B. - Vessels clearing in ballast from an Open Port to and Upen Fort are not allowed to rcceed via a foreign port or ports for bunkering or for any other purpose, unless they have declared at time of clearance the name or nates of the foreign port or ports at which they intend to call. Failure to do so will render the vessel liable to a fine not ereseding #500.

The above ruling does not apply to vessels which put into a foreign port in distress, but when the ples of distress is proffered, it should only be accepted when its authenticity can be vouched for,

2. Should any portion of the native produce conveyed by a staaker from an Open Fort to another open Port via a foreign port er ports be declared to be for transhipment to another steamer or to a junk at any foreign port touched at, then the steamship owner or agent, or the individual serchant concerned, shall on his declaration state into which type of vessel the goods are to be transhipped, shall give fall particulare of the gɔods to be transhipped as to marke, weight, value etc., and shall also, if possible, state thể name of the vessel into which the goods are to be transhipped for conveyance to their destination.

3. in receipt of such a declaration the Customs aathorities it the origlaal port of clearance shall take from the owner or agont of the steamer, or from the individual merchant concerned, a written guarantee, under specified penalties, that no repacking of the goods declared for such transhipment shall take place any foreign port touched at.

4. Native produce declared for transhipment at a foreign port must be securely packed, and in such a manner as to be easily sealed if necessary, must be marked with a distinctive mark for each consignment - preferably with the name of the firm to which the shipment is addressed, – and must be numbered in such a way as to be easily identifiable. If necessary, the Custena may call upon the applicant to supply a signed weight memorandum shoving the weight of each individual package in a given sonsignment. The Custous reserve the right to refuse this transhipment privilege if these conditions are not fully complied with.

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