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TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN

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country, and for any period not exceeding twelve months, from the Imperial Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo, or from the chief authorities in the Prefecture in which an open port is situated; it being understood that the existing Rules and Regulations governing British subjects who visit the interior of the Empire are to be maintained.

3.-The Japanese Government undertakes, before the cessation of British Consular jurisdiction in Japan, to join the International Conventions for the Pro- tection of Industrial Property and Copyright.

4. It is understood between the two High Contracting Parties that, if Japan thinks it necessary at any time to levy an additional duty on the production or manufacture of refined sugar in Japan, an increased customs duty equivalent in amount may be levied on British refined sugar when imported into Japan, so long as such additional excise tax or inland duty continues to be raised.

Provided always that British refined sugar shall in this respect be entitled to the treatment accorded to refined sugar being the produce or manufacture of the most favoured nation.

5. The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protocol shall be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed this day, and that when the said Treaty is ratified the agreements contained in the Protocol shall also equally be considered as approved, without the necessity of a further formal ratification.

It is agreed that this Protocol shall terminate at the same time the said Treaty ceases to be binding.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at London, in duplicate, this sixteenth day of the seventh month of the twenty-seventh year of Meiji.

(Signed)

"

[L.S.] [L.S.]

AOKI.

KIMBERLEY.

Annex (Tariff).

ARTICLES.

Caoutchouk, manufactures of

Cement, Portland

Cotton-

Yarns

**

...

***

Ad valorem.

Rates of duty.

咨询

Per cent.

Tissues of all sorts, plain or mixed with tissues of flax, hemp, or other fibre, including wool, the cotton, however, predominating

...

Glass, window, ordinary-

(a.) Uncoloured and unstained (b.) Coloured, stained, or ground Hats, including also hats of felt

Indigo, dry...

Iron and steel-

Pig and ingot Rails

...

***

***

...

Bar, rod, plate, and sheet

Tinned plates

Galvanized sheet Pipes and tubes

***

...

...

***

...

***

*

***

***

**

***

ARTICLES,

10

Lead, pig, ingot, and slab...

...

5

Leather-

...

Sole...

404

+44

8

Other kinds

...

...

Linen-

Yarns

***

Tissues

...

14

Ad valorem. Rates of duty.

Per cent.

10

Mercury or quicksilver

Milk, condensed or dessicated

8

Nails, iron...

***

...

10

Oil, paraffin

10

Paint in oil

10

Paper, printing

***

...

Refined sugar

**

5

Saltpetre...

+00

**

5

***

74

Screws, bolts, and nuts, iron ...

Silk, satins, and silk and cotton mixtures 15

5

...

***

15

***

10

***

***

8

...

10

**

5

...

...

5

10

...

40

***

10

***

...

10

***

10

10

...

5

10

1.

+

10

Tin-

...

***

***

10

10

...

Block, pig, and slab... Plates

...

***

.......

5

***

10

***

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