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HANKOW:
The Commissioner of Customs, Hankow, stated
early in January that the instructions which he had
received from the Inspector-General to date were that
medical supplies presented to China from abroad for
relief purposes were to be passed duty-free on importation
provided that they were covered by duty-free certificates
signed jointly by a representative of the Foreign Health
Services Department of the National Health Administration
and by the highest provincial or municipal authority.
CANTON:
Medical supplies for relief purposes consigned
to Canton have been exempted from Customs duties. Narcotics
have also been passed duty-free on the production of a
certificate issued by the Ministry of Health representative
at Hong Kong.
SHANGHAI:
The
It is understood that the procedure is to be
that these drugs are, where necessary, repacked in Hong
Kong and distributed from there to Shanghai, Hankow, Amoy
and other ports in China. This is to be done under the
control of a Special Committee in Hong Kong, of which Mr.
G. C. Pelham, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner and
Commercial Secretary at Hong Kong, is the Chairman.
Shanghai Commissioner of Customs, in reply to an enquiry as
to whether similar exemption from duty was to be extended
to medicines imported here for other bodies and hospitals,
giving relief to wounded soldiers and civilians, said that
the Chinese Red Cross had been definitely named as entitled
to such exemption from duty. As regards other bodies, each
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