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BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN

It is understood that in all that concerns the administration of the estates of deceased persons, any right, privilege, favour, or immunity which either of the high contracting parties has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the Consular officers of any other foreign State shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the Consular officers of the other high contracting party.

Art. VI.-There shall be between the territories of the two high contracting parties reciprocal freedom of commerce and navigation. The subjects of each of the high contracting parties shall have liberty freely to come with their ships and cargoes to all places, ports, and rivers in the territories of the other, which are or may be opened to foreign commerce, and, conforming themselves to the laws of the country to which they thus come, shall enjoy the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours, immunities, and exemptions in matters of commerce and navigation as are or may be enjoyed by native subjects.

Art. VII.—Articles, the produce or manufacture of the territories of one high contracting party, upon importation into the territories of the other, from whatever place arriving, shall enjoy the lowest rates of Customs duty applicable to similar articles of any other foreign crigin.

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No prohibition or restriction shall be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article, the produce or manufacture of the territories of either of the high contracting parties, into the territories of the other, from whatever place arriving, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like articles, being the pro- duce or inanufacture of any other foreign country. This provision is not applicable to the sanitary or other prohibitions occasioned by the necessity of securing the safety of persons, or of cattle, or of plants useful to agriculture.

Art. VIII.—The articles, the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom, enu- merated in Part I. of the Schedule annexed to this Treaty, shall not, on importation into Japan, be subjected to higher Customs duties than those specified in the Schedule.

The articles, the produce or manufacture of Japan. enumerated in Part. II. of the Schedule annexed to this Treaty, shall be free of duty on importation into the United Kingdom.

Provided that if at any time after the expiration of one year from the date this Treaty takes effect either of the high contracting parties desires to make a modi- fication in the Schedule it may notify its desire to the other high contracting party, and thereupon negotiations for the purpose shall be entered into forthwith.

If the negotiations are not brought to a satisfactory conclusion within six months from the date of notification, the high contracting party which gave the notification may, within one month, give six months' notice to aborgate the present Article, and on the expiration of such notice the present Article shall cease to have effect, without prejudice to the other stipulation of this Treaty.

Art. IX.-Articles, the produce or manufacture of the territories of one of the high contracting parties, exported to the territories of the other, shall not be sub- jected on export to other or higher charges than those on the like articles ex- ported to any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or restriction be imposed on the exportation of any article from the territories of either of the two High Contracting Parties to the territories of the other which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to any other foreign country.

Art. X.-Articles, the produce or manufacture of the territories of one of the high contracting parties, passing in transit through the territories of the other, in conformity with the laws of the country, shall be reciprocally free from all transit duties, whether they pass direct, or whether during transit they are unloaded, ware- housed, and reloaded.

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