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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES
Article V.The present Treaty shall be ratified as soon as possible and shall come into force on the day on which the two Governments shall have notified each other that the ratification has been effected.
In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed thereunto their seals.
Done at Nanking this nineteenth day of the twelfth month of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, corresponding to the nineteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
(Signed) CHENGTING T. WANG. (Signed) JOAO ANTONIO DE BIANCHI.
SINO-ITALIAN TREATY.
The new treaty between China and Italy was signed on November 27th., 1928. The text of the treaty is as follows:
Preliminary Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Republic of China and the Kingdom of Italy.
The Republic of China and the Kingdom of Italy, being equally animated by the desire to strengthen the ties of friendship which happily subsist between the two countries and to promote and consolidate their commercial relations have resolved to conclude a Preliminary Treaty for Amity and Commerce, and have, for this purpose, named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
His Excellency the President of the National Government of the Re-
public of China:
Dr. Chengting T. Wang, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Na-
tional Government of the Republic of China:
His Majesty the King of Italy:
Mr. Daniele Vare, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Officer of the Order of S. S. Maurice and Lazarus, Envoy Ex- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Italy to China;
Who, having met and communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following
Articles :
Article I.--The two High Contracting Parties agree that the Customs tariff and all matters related thereto shall be regulated exclusively by their respective national legislations.
It is further agreed that each of the High Contracting Parties shall en- joy in the territory of the other, with regard to customs and all related mat- ters, treatment in no way less favourable that the treatinent accorded to any other country.
The nationals of each of the High Contracting Parties shall not be com- pelled, under any pretext whatever, to pay within the territories of the other Party any duties, internal charges or taxes upon the importation or exporta. tion of goods, other or higher than those paid by the nationals of the country or by the nationals of any other country.
Article II.-The nationals of each of the High Contracting Parties shall be subject, in the territory of the other Party, to the laws and jurisdiction of the law courts of that Party, to which they shall have free and easy access for the enforcement and defence of their rights.
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