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CHINESE CUSTOMS TARIFF-RULES

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security as may be deemed by the Customs satisfactory, to return, within six months from the date of clearance, to the collector at the port of shipment, the certificate, Issued by him, with an acknowledgment thereon of the receipt of the cash at the port of destination by the collector at tuat port, who shall thereto affix bis seal; or, failing the production of the certificate, to forfeit a sum equal in value to the cash shipped. Cash will pay no duty inwards or outwards; but a freight or part freight of cash, though no other cargo be on board, will render the vessel carrying it liable to

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3. The export of rice and all other grain whatsoever, native or foreign, no natter where grown or whence imported, to any foreign port, is prohibited; but these commodities may be carried by British merchants from one of the open ports of China nother, under the same conditions in respect of security as cash, on payment at Fort of shipment of the duty specified in the Tariff.

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No import duty will be leviable on rice or grain; but a freight or part freight of rice or grain, though no other cargo be on board, will render the vessel importing it

able to tonnage dues.

4.- * The export of pulse und beancake from Tung-chau and Newebwang, under the British flag, is prohibited. From any other of the ports they may be shipped, on payment of the tariff duty, to other ports of China, or to foreign countries.

5.-Saltpetre, sulphur, brimstone, and spelter, being munitions of war, shall not be imported by British subjects, save at the requisition of the Chinese Government, or for sale to Chinese duly authorized to purchase them. No permit to land them will be issued until the Customs have proof that the necessary authority bas been given to the purchaser. It shall not be lawful for British subjects to carry these commodities up the Yang-tsze-kiang, or into any port other than those open on the seaboard, nor accompany them into the interior on behalf of Chinese. They must be sold at the ports only, an!, except at the ports, they will be regarded as Chinese property.

Intractions of the conditions, as above set forth, under which trade in opium, h, grain, pulse, saltpetre, brimstone, sulphur, and spelter may be henceforward varried on, will be punishable by confiscation of all goods concerned.

RULE VI.-Liability of Vessels entering Ports.-To the prevention of misunder- standing, it is agreed that the term of twenty-four hours, within which British vessels Last be reported to the Consul under Article XXXVII. of the Treaty of Tientsin shall be understood to commence from the time a British vessel comes within the limits the port; as also the term of forty-eight hours allowed her by Article XXX. of the xine Treaty to remain in port without payment of tonnage dues.

The limits of the ports shall be defined by the Customs, with all consideration for the convenience of trade compatible with due protection ofthe revenue; also the its of the anchorages within which lading and discharging is permitted by the Customs; and the same shall be notitied to the Consul for public information.

KULE VII.—Transit Dues.—It is agreed that Article XXVIII. of the Treaty of Tentsin shall be interpreted to declare the amounts of transit-dues legally leviable merchandise imported or exported by British subjects, to be one-half of the tariff ckties, except in the case of the duty-free goods liable to a transit duty of 23 per cent. d colorem, as provided in Article 11. of these Rules. Merchandise shall be cleared fits transit dues under the following conditions:--

In the case of Imports.--Notice being given at the port of entry, from which the Luports are to be forwarded inland, of the nature and quantity of the goods, the ship to which they have been landed, and the place inland to which they are bound,

* NOTIFICATION

BRITISH CONSULATE, SHANGHAI, 25th Murch, 1862

Ande IV, of Bule No 5 appended to the Tariff of 1958 is rescinded. Purate! lean-cake may be henceforth exported from Tungchow and Newchwang, and from all other ports in China by Treaty, on the same terms and conditions as are applied to other Native produce by the Regulations bearing date Sath Deorder last; that is to say, they may be shipped on payment of Tariff duty at the port of shipment, and dis- mużą od at any Chinese port on payment of half-duty, with power to claim drawback of the haif-duty if re-exported.

By order,

Walter H. Madhurst, Consul.

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