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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES
Treaty Regulating Tariff Relations between China and Sweden.
The Republic of China and the Kingdom of Sweden, mutually animated by a desire to maintain the ties of friendship which happily exist between the two countries and wishing to consolidate and extend the commercial in- tercourse between them, have for the purpose of negotiating a treaty designed to facilitate these objects,, named as their Plenipotentiaries:
His Excellency the President of the National Government of the Re-
public of China:
Dr. Chengting T. Wang, Minister for Foreign Agairs of the
National Government of the Republic of China;
His Majesty the King of Sweden:
Baron G. Leijonhufvud, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of Sweden in
China:
Who, having exchanged their full powers found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following treaty between the two countries.
Article I. All provisions which appear in treaties hitherto concluded and in force between China and Sweden relating to rates of duty on imports and exports of merchandise, drawbacks, transit dues and tonnage dues in China shall be annulled and become inoperative, and the principle of complete na- tional tariff autonomy shall apply subject, however, to the condition that each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the territories of the other with respect to the above specified and any related matters treatment in no way discriminatory as compared with the treatment accorded to any other country.
The nationals of neither of the High Contracting Parties shall be com- pelled under any pretext whatever to pay, within the territories of the other, any duties, internal charges or taxes upon their importations and exportations other or higher than those which are paid by nationals of the country or by nationals of any other country.
Article II The present Treaty has been drawn up in two copies in Chinese, Swedish and English. In case of any difference of interpretation, the English text shall prevail.
Article III. The present Treaty shall be ratified as soon as possible by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional procedure, by Sweden subject to the approval of the Riksdag, and shall come into force on the day on which the High Contracting Parties shall have notified each other that ratification has been effected.
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In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective powers have signed this Treaty and have affixed our respective seals.
Done at Nanking the twentieth day of the twelfth month of the seven- teenth year of the Republic of China, corresponding to the twentieth day of December, nineteen hundred, and twenty-eight..
(Signed) CHENGTING T. WANG. (Signed) CARL LEIJONHUFVUD.
THE SINO-BRITISH TREATY.
In a Note dated August 30, 1928, Dr. Wang suggested to Sir Miles Lamp son, British Minister to China, the readjustment of the tariff relations be- tween China and Great Britain along the lines which were later propossed to the Norwegian, Netherlands and Swedish Governments.
The new Sino-British tariff treaty was signed on December 20, 1928. The text of the treaty is given below:
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