51349-1917-Regulations-governing-the-importation-of-goods-into-Russia — Page 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 24, 1917.

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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,

No. 380. The following regulations, governing the importation of goods into Russia, have been approved by the Russian Provisional Government, and are published for general information.

As a provisional measure, in modification, substitution and amplification of the Rules in force, the following rules are fixed for the importation of goods including postal parcels by the maritime frontiers and the Russo-Finnish frontier, as well as through the station Manchouria :

1. The importation shall only be admitted by special authorisation of :--

(a) the General Administration of Supplies of the Ministry of War (Glavnoie Upravlenie Zagranichnyh Snabjeniy) for all Government goods and private goods intended for the national defence.

(b) the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, within the limits of tonnage allotted

to it for that purpose, for all other private goods.

These two administrations may delegate their powers in individual cases to different local authorities.

Note. The right to issue in foreign countries certificates testifying the authorisation granted may be intrusted to organs of the Russian Government which shall be specially instructed to that effect by the above mentioned administration.

2. The goods arriving in Russia without the authorisation dealt with in the preced- ing article shall be confiscated by the organs instructed to that effect by the Ministry of War.

3. The goods confiscated in accordance with article 2 shall be placed at the disposal of the Ministry of War which shall make use of them for the needs of defence, or, by agreement with the Ministry of Commerce, for other State requirements, or order their sale for the benefit of the exchequer.

4. The Ministry of War is authorised to draw up in consultation with the other Ministries lists of goods exempted from the present regulations.

5. The present regulations come into force from the day on which the respective Custom Houses receive the official telegram notifying their promulgation, but they should not affect shipments made within three weeks from the date of their publication in the Collection of Laws and Orders (this date shall be communicated eventually) and accom- panied by bills of lading, railway freight bills or postal declarations certifying their dispatch within the limits of this term.

II.

The Ministry of Commerce is directed to approve, in agreement with Ministries of War and Finance, lists of goods exempted from the present regulations and to publish simultaneously with the publication of the present regulations in the Collection of Laws and Orders.*

*The lists have not yet been received.