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TREATY BETWEEN GERMANY AND JAPAN.

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Goods of Japanese production or manufacture brought back from foreign countries to Japan shall pay an ad valorem duty of five per centum.

Art. VI. No other or higher duties or charges shall be imposed in the territories of either of the Contracting Parties on the exportation of any article to the territorice of the other, than such as are, or may be, payable on the exportation of the liks articles to any other foreign country; nor shall any prohibition of any article from the territories of either of the two Contracting Parties to the territories of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like articles to any other country.

Art. VII. The subjects or citizens of each of the Contracting Parties shall en- joy in the dominions of the other in respect to exemption from transit duties, and in all that relates to warehousing, bounties, facilities, and drawbacks, all the advantages which have been or may be hereafter granted to the most favoured nation.

It is however understood that all goods imported into Japan by German subjects or citizens, on which the duty shall have been paid according to the Tariff annexed to this Treaty, may be conveyed to any Japanese port free of duty, and when trans- ported into the interior, shall not, except as herein otherwise provided, be subject to any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatever in any part of the Japanese Empire. Art. VIII.-When goods of foreign production or manufacture, which have been removed from the custody and control of the Customs are, within two years from the date of their importation, exported from Japan, such goods shall be allow- ed to pass the Customs free of export duty, and the importer thereof shall, in addi- tion, be entitled to receive a drawback certificate for the amount of the import duties paid thereon, provided that all charges upon the said goods to the Customs shall have been paid, that they are bona fide exported to a foreign country; that they are so exported in the casks, boxes, trunks or packages in which they were originally imported, without having been opened or unpacked except by the Customs or with their permission; that the original import permit shall accompany the application for drawback of duty and be retained by the Customs Authorities, and that the said goods shall be, at the time of their exportation, subject to such examination and in- spection as the Custom Authorities may deem necessary to determine their identity with the goods described in the import permit. These drawback certificates shall either be redeemed on demand, or be, at any time, accepted by the Customs Au- thorities in payment of duties.

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Art. IX. The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the dominions of either of the High Contracting Parties of any article which is or may be legally importable therein by native or foreign subjects or citizens, whether such importation shall be in Japanese or German vessels. The same duties shall be paid on the exportation from the dominious of either of the High Contracting Parties of any article which is or may be legally exportable therefrom by native or foreign subjects or citizens, whether such exportation shall be in Japanese or German vessels.

Art. X.-The coasting trade of both the Contracting Parties is excepted from the provisions of the present Treaty; and shall be regulated according to the laws of Germany and of Japan, respectively. It is, however, understood that German sub- jects or citizens in Japan, and Japanese subjects in Germany, shall enjoy in this respect the rights which are, or may be, granted, under such laws, to the subjects or citizens of any other country,

A Japanese vessel, laden in a foreign country with cargo destined for two or more ports in Germany, and a German vessel, laden in a foreign country with cargo destined for two or more ports in Japan, may discharge a portion of her cargo at one port and continue her voyage to the other port or ports of destination where foreign trade is permitted, for the purpose of landing the remainder of her original cargo there, subject always to the laws and custom house regulations of the two

countries.

But the Imperial Japanese Government makes the following concession in addition, that German vessels may carry cargoes between any of the ports herein. after mentioned, namely: Yokohama, Kobe, Hyogo, Hakodate and Nagasaki.