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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES

Treaty Regulating Tariff Relations between the Republic of China and

the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The National Government of the Republic of China and Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, animated by an earnest desire to consolidate the ties of friendship which happily subsist between the two countries and to further develop their commercial relations, have with this object in view re- solved to conclude a treaty, and have for this purpose named as their respective 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

National Government of the Republic of China;

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:

Mr. Willem Jacob Oudendijk, Commander in the Order of Orange Nassau, Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in China;

Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

Article I.-All provisions which appear in the treaties hitherto concluded and in force between China and the Kingdom of the Netherlands 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 principal of complete national tariff autonomy shall apply subject, however, to the condition that each of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the territories, possessions and colonies of the other, with respect to the above specified and any related matters, treatment in no way discri- minatory as compared with the treatment accorded to any other country.

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The nationals of neither of the High Contracting Parties shall be com- pelled under any pretext whatever to pay within the territories, possessions or colonies of the other Party any duties, internal charges or taxes upon their importations and exportations other or higher than those paid by nationals of the country or by nationals of any other country.

Article II. The present Treaty is drawn up in two copies in the Chinese, Netherlands, and English languages. In the event of there being a difference of meaning between these texts, the sense as expressed in the English text shall prevail.

Article III. The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties as soon as possible and the instruments of ratification shall be ex- changed at Nanking. It shal! 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 Pienipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty in duplicate and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at Nanking, this nineteenth day of the twelfth month of the seven- teenth year of the Republic of China, corresponding to the nineteen day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

(Signed) CHENGTING T. Wang. (Signed) W. J. OUDENDIJK.