SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES
Article I.-All provisions which appear in the treaties hitherto concluded and in force between China and the United States of America 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 national 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 Party any duties, internal charges or taxes upon their importations and ex- portions other or higher than those paid by nationals of the country or by nationals of any other country.
The above provisions shall become effective on January 1, 1929, provided that the exchange of ratifications hereinafter provided shall have taken place by that date; otherwise, at a date four months subsequent to such exchange of ratifications.
Article II.-The English and Chinese texts of this Treaty have been care- fully compared and verified; but, in the event of there being a difference of meaning between the two, the sense as expressed in the English text shall be held to prevail.
This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional methods, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in Washington as soon as possible.
In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective powers have signed this Treaty in duplicate in the English and Chinese languages and have affixed our respective seals.
Done at Peiping, the 25th day of the 7th mouth of the 17th year of the Republic of China, corresponding to the 25th of July, 1928.
(Signed) T. V. SOONG
(Signed) J. V. A MACMURRAY
SINO-FRENCH TARIFF TREATY
Treaty Regulating Customs Relations between the Republic of China
and the French Republic.
(Translation from the French).
On September 29, 1928, Dr C. T. Wang sent to Mr. Cosmé, the French Chargé d'Affaires at Peiping, a Note, suggesting that the tariff relations between China and France be readjusted on the basis of the principles which had been proposed to the British and other friendly Governments. As a result of the subsequent negotiations between Dr. Wang and Count de Martel, the French Minister, the following treaty was concluded on December 22, 1928:
The Republic of China and the French Republic, animated by the desire to further consolidate the ties of friendship which happily subsist between the two countries and to develop their commercial relations, have decided to conclude a Treaty and have, for this purpose, named as their respective Pleni- potentiaries, that is to say:
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