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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TMп OCTOBER, 1880.

Tools and cutlery of all kinds;

Machines and machinery, and detached parts thereof;

Agricultural implements and machinery; Yarns, threads, and textile manufactures of all descriptions;

Pottery and porcelain wares, and refined mineral oils.

Other goods, the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and British Colonies and foreign possessions, shall pay, As the case may be, the specific duties in the Servian General or Conventional Tariff, or an ad ralorem duty of 10 per cent., at the option of the importer.

ARTICLE IV.

British goods imported into Servia shall not be subject to any other or higher local or other sur- charges on customs duties than those which are now levied, namely

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1. 20 centimes per 100 kilogrammes for porter- where Custom-house porters are employed; 2. 8 centimes per 100 kilogrammes for weigh-

ing;

3.10 centimes per 100 kilogrammes for pav- ing;

4. 5 centimes per 100 kilogrammes for ware- housing. This duty shall be 10 centimes per 100 kilogrammes on explosive or combustible goods.

It is further agreed that any reduction in these urcharges which may be granted to the produce or manufactures of any third Power shall be at OLCe extended to the like articles of British produce

or manufacture.

ARTICLE V.

The dutics ad valorem levied in Servia on goods the produce or manufacture of the territories, in- uding the Colonies and foreign possessions, of Her Britannic Majesty, shall be calculated on the value at the place of production or fabrication of the object imported, with the addition of the cost of transport, insurance, and commission necessary for the importation into Servia as far as the port of discharge or place of entry.

For the levying of these duties the importer shall make a written declaration at the custom house stating the value and description of the goods imported. If the Custom-house authorities shall be of opinion that the declared value is Insufficient, they shall be at liberty to take the goods on paying to the importer the price declared, namely, the value at the place of production or fabrication of the object imported, with the addi- tion of the cost of transport, insurance, and com- mission necessary for the importation into Servia

s far as the port of discharge or place of entry, with an addition of 5 per cent.

This

payment, together with the restitution of any duty which may have been levied upon such goods, shall be made within the fifteen days fol-

wing the declaration.

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Goods unaccompanied by the above-mentioned declaration shall not be entitled to the benefit of paying the ad valorem duties stipulated in the present Treaty, but shall be subjected to the speci- fic or other duties charged in the Servian General or Conventional Tariff.

ARTICLE VI.

The Servian Government reserves to itself the rights, after an understanding with Her Majesty's Legation, to limit to certain places the custom- houses through which goods charged ad valorem may enter Servia.

The Servian Government likewise reserves to itself the right to require that the importer shall produce, together with his declaration of value on the entry of the goods into Servia, one or other, at his option, of the following documents, namely:-

(1) A declaration of value made before a magistrate at the place of production or manufac-

ture;

of Commerce at the place; or

(2.) A certificate of value from the Chamber

nearest Servian Consul. The fee of such Consul (3.) A declaration of value made before the

five shillings. on certifying this declaration shall not exceed

ARTICLE VII.

If one of the Contracting Parties shall impose an excise tax, that is to say, an inland duty, upon any article of home production or manufacture, an equivalent compensatory duty may be imposed on articles of the same description on their importa- tion from the territories of the other Power, pro- vided that the said equivalent duty is levied on like articles on their importation from all foreign countries.

excise taxes, that is to say, inland duties, a cor- In the event of the reduction or suppression of responding reduction or suppression shall at the same time be made in the equivalent compensatory duty on manufactures of British or Servian origin, as the case may be.

ARTICLE VIII.

Every reduction in the Tariff of import and export duties, as well as every favour or immunity which has been or may hereafter be granted by one of the Contracting Parties to the subjects or commerce of a third Power, shall be granted simultaneously and unconditionally to the other, except as regards such special facilities as have been, or may hereafter be, conceded on the part of Servia to the neighbouring States, with respect to the local traffic between their conterminous frontier districts.

ARTICLE IX.

British subjects in Servia and Servian subjects in the territories, including the Colonies and foreign possessions, of Her Britannic Majesty, shall enjoy.