TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES.
SIGNED AT WASHINGTON, 25TH JULY, 1878.
Ratifications Ezchanged at Washington, 8th April, 1879.
Convention revising certain portions of existing commercial Treaties and further extending commercial intercourse between Japan and the United States.
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the President of the United States of America, both animated with the desire of maintaining the good relations which have so happily subsisted between their respective countries, and wishing to strengthen, if possible, the bond of friendship and to extend and consolidate commercial intercourse between the two countries by means of an additional Convention, have for that pur- pose named as their respective Plenipotentiaries; that is to say:-His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Jushie Yoshida Kiyenari, of the Order of the Rising Sun, and of the Third Class, and His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary to the United States of America, and the President of the United States, William Maxwell Evarts, Secretary of State of the United States, who, after reci- procal communication of their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-
Art. I. It is agreed by the high Contracting Parties that the Tariff Convention signed at Yedo on the 25th day of June, 1866, or the 13th of the 5th month of the second year of Keio, by the respective representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Holland on the one hand, and Japan on the other, together with Schedules of Tariff on imports and exports, and the bonded warehouse Regulations, both of which are attached to the said Convention, shall hereby be annulled aud become inoperative as between the United States and Japan under the condition expressed in Article X. of this present Convention; and all such provisions of the Treaty of 1858, or the fifth year of Ausei, signed at Yedo, as appertain to the Regulations of Harbours, Customs, and Taxes, as well as the whole of the trade Regulations which are attached to the said Treaty of 1858, or the fifth year of Ansei, shall also cease to operate.
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It is further understood and agreed that from the time when this present Convention shall take effect, the United States will recognize the exclusive power and right of the Japanese Government to adjust the Customs Tariff and Taxes and to establish Regulations appertaining to foreign commerce in the open ports of Japan.
Art. II-It is, however, further agreed that no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into Japan of all articles of merchandise from the United States than are or may be imposed upon the like articles of any other foreign country; and if the Japanese Government should prohibit the exportation from, or importation into, its dominions of any particular article or articles, such prohibition shall not be discriminatory against the products, vessels, or citizens of the United States.
Art. III. It is further agreed, that, as the United States charge no export duties on merchandise shipped to Japan, no export duties on merch lise shipped in the latter country for the United States shall be charged after thi Treaty shall go into effect.
Art. IV. It is further stipulated and agreed, that so long as the first three sentences which are comprised in the first paragraph of Article VI. of the Treaty of 1858, or the fifth year of Ausei, shall be in force, all claims by the Japanese Govern-
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