CO129-571-18 League of Nations- medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 8-2-1938 - 30-1-1939 — Page 104

COPY.

(F 1720/1720/10)

Copy to:-

Consuls.

No.1168 (25/81A/1937)

Sir,

104

British Embassy,

Peking.

21st December, 1937.

I have the honour to transmit herewith

a copy of a translation published in the November

number of the Shanghai British Chamber of Commerce

Journal of certain provisional measures governing

exemption from import duty of medicines for purposes

of medical relief, which are stated to have been

drawn up jointly by the Ministry of Finance and the

Translation. National Health Administration.

Circular to Consuls No. 90 of 21.12.1937.

2.

As stated in Article three these measures

entitle Central or local government offices or any

recognised organisation purchasing certain medicines.

for the use of wounded soldiers or civilians to

exemption from Customs import duties. The list

mentioned in Article two is, however, omitted from

the Journal in question, and in view of the continued

non-receipt of Chinese Gazettes by this Embassy as a

result of the present crisis, particulars of the

medicines to which the exemption from duty is thus

applicable are not yet available. It may however be

assumed that they comprise the usual medicaments

required for first aid and civil hospital work, with

the possible ex option of the narcotic drugs specified

in the list annexed to the Provisional Measures

Governing the Purchase and Use of Narcotic Drugs,

The Right Honourable

Anthony Eden, M. C., M.P.,

etc., etc., etc.,

Foreign Office.

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