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Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

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TREATY OF ALLIANCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN

No. in Japanese

Statutory Tariff.

Description of Article.

Unit of Weight.

Rate of Duty

in 'Yen.

B. Of wool and cotton:

c. Weighing not more than 500 grammes per square metre

...100 kin. 30.00

d. Other

..100

18.00

+

462.

Iron:-

1. In lumps, ingots, blooms, billets, and slabs :

A. Pig iron...

4. Plates and Sheets:

A. Not coated with metals :

A3. Other:

...100

00.83

"

a. Not exceeding 0.7 millimetres in thickness B. Coated with base metals:

...100

...

0.30

B1. Tinned (tinned iron sheets and tinned steel sheets):

a. Ordinary...

B2. Galvanised (corrugated or not)

PART II.

1.- Habutae or pure silk, not dyed or printed.

2.-Handkerchiefs or habutae or pure silk, not dyed or printed.

3.-Copper, unwrought, in ingots and slabs.

4.-Plaiting or straw and other materials.

5.-Camphor and camphor oil.

6.—Baskets (including trunks) and basketware of bamboo.

7. Mats and matting of rush.

8.-Lacquered wares, coated with Japanese lacquer (Urnshi).

9.-Rape-seed oil.

10.-Cloisonné wares.

100

0.70

...100

1.20

TREATY OF ALLIANCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

SIGNED IN LONDON, JULY 13TH, 1911

The Governments of Great Britain and Japan, in view of the great change that has taken place in the political situation since the present Anglo-Japanese Agree- ment was concladed on August 12th, 1905, and believing it to be conducive to the general peace and security to amend the said Agreement and adapting it to the changed conditions, have agreed upon the following stipulations in the place of the said Agreement, which have the same objects as the present Agreement, that is to

BAY :——

A. The consolidation and maintenance of the general peace in the regions of Eastern Asia and of India ;

B. The preservation of the common interests of all Powers in China by insur- ing the independence and integrity of the Chinese Empire and the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China :

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