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 53

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transhipped, shall give full particulars of the goods to be tranship- ped as to marks, weight, value etc., and shall also, if possible, state the name of the vessel into which the goods are to be tran- shipped for conveyance to their destination.

3.

On receipt of such a declaration the Customs authorities

at the original port of clearance shall take from the owner or agent 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 at 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 Customs may call upon the applicant to supply a signed weight memorandum showing the

weight of each individual package in a given consignment. The

Customs reserve the right to refuse this transhipment privilege

if these conditions are not fully complied with.

5.

Native produce which is not packed or not properly marked 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 steamer or junk at a foreign port, and accepted as such by

the Customs at original port of clearance, does not reach the Open

Port specified within two months from the date of original shipment,

it shall on arrival be regarded as having lost its native status

and be treated accordingly. The only exception to this time limit

of two months is in the case of native goods shipped between the Open Ports in the province of Yunnan and other Open Ports in China