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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES
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 two High Contracting Parties. shall be subject, in the territory of the other Party, to the laws and jurisdic- tion of the law courts of that Party, to which they shall have free and easy access for the cnforcement and defence of their rights.
Article III. The two High Contracting Parties have decided to enter as soon as possible into negotiations for the purpose of concluding a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation based on the principles of absolute equality and non-discrimination in their commercial relations and mutual respect for sovereignty.
Article IV. The present Treaty has been drawn up in two copies in the Chinese, Danish and English languages. In the event of there being any dif ference of meaning, the English text shall be held to prevail.
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 thereto their seals.
Done at Nanking this twelfth day of the twelfth month of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, corresponding to the twelfth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
(Signed) CHENGTING T. WANG.
Plenipotentiary and Minister for "Foreign Affairs of the National
Government of the Republic of China.
(Signed) HENRI KAUFFMANN
Envoy Extraordinary and Minis- ter Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Denmark and Ice- land, to China.
THE SINO-GERMAN TREATY.
The Sino-German tariff treaty was signed on August 17, 1928.
Treaty between China and Germany.
The Republic of China, and the German Reich, aminated by the desire to further consolidate the ties of friendship which happily exist between the two countries and to extend and facilitate the commercial relations between the two countries, have, for this purpose, decided to conclude a treaty and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:
The President of the Council of the Nationalist Government of the Re--
public of China:
Dr. Chengting T. Wang, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
The President of the German Reich:
Mr. H. von Borch, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tiary of the German Reich to China.
Who, having communicated to each other their full powers and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the folowing treaty between the two countries:
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