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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES

Treaty Regulating Tariff Relations between China and Sweden.

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The Republic of China and the Kingdom of Sweden, mutually animated y a desire to maintain the ties of friendship which happily exist between he two countries and wishing to consolidate and extend the commercial in- ercourse between them, have for the purpose of negotiating a treaty designed o 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 C. 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 n 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.

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The nationals of neither of the High Contracting Parties shall be com- belled under any pretext whatever to pay, within the territories of the other, ny duties, internal charges or taxes upon their importations and exportations ther or higher than those which are paid by nationals of the country or by hationals 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,

he 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 nto force on the day on which the High Contracting Parties shall have notified bach other that ratification has been effected.

In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective powers have signed this Treaty and have affixed our respective seals.

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

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(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- on, 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: