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COREAN TARIFF

Foreign ships, when sold in Corea, will pay a duty of 25 cents per ton on sailing vessels, and 50 cents per tou on steamers.

Prohibited Goods.

Adulterated drugs or medicines.

Arms, munitions, and implements of war, as ordnance, or cannon, shot and shell, firearms of all kinds, cartridges, side-arms, spears or pikes,

saltpetre, gunpowder, guucotton, dynamite, and other explosive substances.

The Corean authorities will grant special permits for the importation of arms, firearms, and ammunition for purposes of sport or self-defence on satisfactory proof being furnished to them of the bond fide character of the application.

Counterfeit coins, all kinds. Opium, except medicinal opium.

EXPORTS

CLASS I.

Duty-Free Export Goods.

Bullions, being gold and silver refined, Coins, gold and silver, all kinds, Plants, trees, and shrubs, all kinds. Samples in reasonable quantity. Traveller's baggage.

CLASS II.

All other native goods or productions not enumerated in Class I. will pay an ad valorem duty of five per cent.

bited.

RULES

The exportation of red ginseng is prohi-

I.—In the case of imported articles the ad valorem duties of this Tariff will be calculated on the -actual cost of the goods at the place of production or fabrication, with the addition of freight, insurance,

In the case of export articles the ad valorem duties will be calculated on market values in Corea. II.-Duties may be paid in Mexican dollars or Japanese silver yen.

etc.

III.-The above Tariff of import and export duties shall be converted, as soon as possible and as far as may be deemed desirable, into specific rates by agreement between the competent authorities of the

two countries.

[LS.] [L.S.]

HARRY S. Parxes.

MIN YONG-KOK.