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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES

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The nationals of each of the High Contracting Parties shall not be com- elled, under any pretext whatever, to pay within the territories of the other arty any duties, internal charges or taxes upon the importation or exporta- ion of goods, other or higher than those paid by the nationals of the country

by the nationals of any other country.

Article II.-The nationals of each of the two High Contracting Parties hall be subject, in the territory of the other Party, to the laws and jurisdic- on of the law courts of that Party, to which they shall have free and easy ccess for the enforcement and defence of their rights.

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Article III. The two High Contracting Parties have decided to enter as bon as possible into negotiations for the purpose of concluding a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation based on the principles of absolute equality and on-discrimination in their commercial relations and mutual respect for overeignty.

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 erence of meaning, the English text shall be held to prevail.

Article V. The present Treaty shall be ratified as soon as possible and ball come into force on the day on which the two Governments shall have otified each other that the ratification has been effected.

In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present reaty and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at Nanking this twelfth day of the twelfth month of the seventeenth ear of the Republic of China, corresponding to the twelfth day of December, ineteen 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, animated by the desire further consolidate the ties of friendship which happily exist between the wo countries and to extend and facilitate the commercial relations between he two countries, have, for this purpose, decided to conclude a treaty and ave 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 be in good and due form, have agreed upon the folowing treaty between he two countries:

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