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TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION
Who, having reciprocally communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:-
Art. I.-Any article, the produce or manufacture of the dominions and posses- sions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, shall enjoy, upon importation into India the lowest customs duties applicable to similar products of any other foreign origin. Art. II.-Reciprocally any article, the produce or manufacture of India, shall enjoy, upou importation into the dominions and possessions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, the lowest customs duties applicable to similar products of any other foreign origin.
Art. III. The privileges and engagements of the present Convention shall extend to Native States of India which by treaty with His Britannic Majesty or otherwise may be entitled to be placed with regard to the stipulations of the Convention on the same footing as British India.
His Britannic Majesty's Government shall communicate from time to time to the Imperial Government of Japan a list of these States.
Art. IV. The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Tokyo as soon as possible. It shall come into effect immediately after the exchange of ratifications, and shall remain in force until the expiration of six months from the day on which one of the high contracting parties shall have announced the intention of terminating it.
In witness whereof the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed there to their seals.
Done in duplicate at Tokyo, in the Japanese and English languages, this 29th day of the 8th month of the 37th year of Meiji, corresponding to the 29th day of August of the year one thousand nine hundred and four.
[L. S.]
[L. S.]
Baron JUTARO KOMURA, His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
CLAUDE M. MacDonald,
His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN
GREAT BRITAIN
AND JAPAN
AND
SIGNED AT LONDON, 3RD APRIL, 1911
PREAMBLE
His Majestey the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being desirous to strengthen the relations of amity and good understanding which happily exist between them and between their subjects, and to facilitate and extend the commercial relations between their two countries, have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
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