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THE ANGLO-JAPANESE TARIFF
CONVENTION.
RATIFIED 29th NOVEMBER, 1895.
The Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the Government of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, by the protocol signed in London on 16th of July, 1894, agreed that the ad valorem duties established by the tariff annexed to the said protocol, SO far as may be deemed practicable, be converted into specific duties by a supplementary convention, which should be concluded between the two Governments within six months from the date of the protocol. The period for concluding the said supplementary convention, however, having been ex anded by an agreement subsequently made, Hi. Majesty the Emperor of Japan and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, for the purpose of concluding such convention, have named the following as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to
say
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Marquis Saioji. Minister for Foreign Affairs od interim and Minister for Education, Junii, first class of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure ;
And Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, Mr. Gerald Augustus Low- ther. Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Japan;
Who after having communicated to each other in due form their full powers have agreed upon and concluded the following articles,
viz. :-
Article I. The tariff annexed to this treaty shall be substituted for the ad valorem tariff annexed to the said protocol agreed to on 16th July, 1894. This tariff shall be subject to the provisions of Article 1 of the said protocol as long as the said provisions be applicable, and
shall come into force one month after the date on which the ratifications of this treaty were exchanged.
Article II.-The specific duties established by this treaty sigued this day shall be amended every three years, and the difference between an average of the rates of exchange for the two quarters adopted by the Japanese Customs during the six months ending 30th June, 1894. and that adopted in the four quarters preceding the last quarter of each respective term of three years, shall be made a basis of the rates agreed upon according to the amendment of the tariff.
The amended tariff shall be made public by the Japanese Government three mouths previous to the expiration of the specified three years, and it will take effect immediately on the ex- piration of the said three years.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
COTTON FABRICS.
4. Cotton drills per square yard 5: Cotton duck per square yard
6. Renzoku Shukin (handkerchiefs in
lengths) per square yard
[December 19, 1895.
TIN.
0.016
48. Pig and slab per 100 catties
0.053
49. Plates ad valorem
0.011
7. Chintzes or printed cottons, per sq. yd. 0.012 8. Cotton sateens (plain, brocaded, and
printed) cotton brocade, cotton Italians, and Mo Kanekin per square yard
9. Shirtings, dyed, per 10. Shirtings, grey 11. Shirtings, twilled 12. Shirtings, white 13. T-Cloths 14. Turkey reds 15. Cotton velvets 16. Victoria lawns
0.017
square yard. 0.013
23
"
0.006
**
0.011
*
0.010
1
0.009
$1
0.012
0.041 0.006
41
17. All other pure cotton piece goods or cotton mixed with flax, hemp, or wool and other fibres, but chiefly cotton not enumerated in the tariff ad valorem
10%
It is understood that ready made clothes and other completely made articles are not included in the above list of cotton fabrics. 18. Glass, window (ordinary):
A. Plain per 100 square feet B. Coloured or polished ad valorem 19. Hats, caps (felt hats included) ad
valurem 20. Indigo, dried per 100 catties
IRON AND STEEL.
21. Pig per 100 catties 22. Bar and rods (not exceeding 1
inch in diameter) 23. Nails.
A. Ordinary...
B. Electro-galvanised ad ra.
loren
24. Pipes and tubes ad falorem 25. Plates por [(8) cdtties
Rails
..
27. Screw nails, bolts, and nuts (gal- vanished or otherwise) ad valorem Galvanised plate (corrugated
otherwise) per 100 catties
28.
29. Iron and steel sheets.
A. Ordinary...
30.
31.
or
B. Polished ad valorem Wire and rod. not exceeding † inch,
per 10 catties
Electric wire (galvanised)
50. Paraffin wax 100 catties
per 51. Woollen yarns and worsted, plain
or dyed per 100 catties.....
WOOLLEN PIECE GOODS.
1.992
-10%
0.544
... 9.169
... 0.075
(Pure wool or mixed with other materials.) 52: Alpacas per square yard
53. Blankets and blankets hemmed with
thread (plain woven) per 100 catties 7.458 54. Bunting per square yard
0.031 55. Cloths:
A. Of woollen yarn or worsted, or of woollen yarn and worsted, such as broad-cloth, narrow cloth, Army cashmere, tweeds, worsted, coatings per square yard B. Of woollen yarn, or worsted and cotton yarn, such as pilot cloth, president cloth, and union cloth per square yard... Flannel per square yard 57. Italian cloth per square yard 58. Long ells per square yard... 59. Mousseline de laine per square yard 60. Serges:
56.
A. Worsted woof and woollen yarn
warp per square yard...
0.093
*
0.039
0.043
0.029
0.036
0.021
yen. 0,302
0.056
107
61.
IOZ 12.953
B. All others ad valorem All woollen fabrics not otherwise enumerated in this convention,
10%
whether of pure wool or mixed with
ven 0.083
other material, but in which the wool predominates, ad valorem
10%
It is understood that ready made clothes and 0.261 articles finished and ready for use are not in-
cluded among woollen piece goods. 057362. Yarns, all sorts of, not otherwise
enumerated in this convention, ad valorem
ZINC.
10 10. (1,296 | 63. Pig and slab per 100 catties 012964. Plates per 100 catties...
107
0.740
0.691 10/
10%
0.451
0.928
WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MONEY, A kin (catty) is a Japanese weight, and is equal to 600 grammes of the metrical system or 1,32277lbs. of British avoirdupois weight.
The pound is the British avoirdupois pound. The yard and foot are British lineal measure. The yen is the current Japanese silver yen consisting of 900 parts of pure silver in (1.503 | 1,000), and weighing 416 grains.
0.256
Soft steel in this tariff means soft steel mann- factured by the Siemens. Bessemer, or similar methods, and its price is hearly equal to that of iron in the corresponding item of this tariff. 32. Lead, pig, and slab per 100 catties 33. Leather.
A. Sole leather
B. Other classes ad valorem
100 eatties
LINENS.
It is understood that this provision shall take 4. Homp or flax yaru (plain dyed) per effect when the other Governments with which the Japanese Government has now entered into negotiatious for a conventional tariff hure agreed to a similar convention.
Article III-By the rate of exchange during the quarter, referred to in the preceding article, is meant the rate of exchange fixing the rela- tive value of the Japanese silver ven and the British pound sterling, as published in the quarterly table issued by the Finance Depart- ment of the Japanese Government.
Article IV. This treaty is a supplement to the treaty and protocol signed on 16th of July, 1894, and shall remain in force for the same period as the latter.
Article V.This treaty shall be ratified by the Sovereign of each contracting party, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in Tokyo BS early as possible within six months from this date.
Done in Tokyo, in duplicate, this 16th day of the month of July, in the year 1895.
(Sigued) Marquis SAIOJI KINMOCHI. (Signed) GERALD Augustus LoWTHER.
The proposed revised tariff is as as follows:-
Articles.
35. Hemp ducks per yard. 36. Other linens ad valorem
RULES FOR CALCULATING AD VALOREM DUTIES.
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Ad valorem duties to be imposed on im- ported goods according to this convention shall be calculated from the cost at the place of pur. chase. production, or manufacture, with the addition of the cost of insurance, and trans- 5.690 portation to the port of discharge and commis-
10sion. if any.
0316
6.527
0.047 107
It is understood that ready made clothes and other completed manufactured articles shall not be included in the category of linens. 37. Mercury per 100 catties
38. Milk, condensed and lesiccated per 12
tins of one pound, tins of over pound in the same proportion
40.
39. Paraffin ad valorem
Paint in oil per 100 catties... 41. Printing papers per 100 catties... 42. Saltpetre (Shosan Hatorias) per 100
catties 43. Silk and cotton mixed sations ad
valorem...
5.048
0.123 10% 1.304 1.163
0.490
15/
It is understood that in the case of other cotton and silk or woollen and silk mixture the duty will be imposed under items 17 to 61 of this tariff, according as the cotton or the wool predominates.
74%
STEEL (EXCLUDING SOFT STEEL)
44. Pig ad valorem.
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45. Bars, rods, and plates.
Duty,
1. India rubber manufactured goods
ad valorem
46. Wire and rods, (the latter not ex-
ceeding inch) per 100 catties
1.819
10%
yen.
47. Refined sugar :
2. Portland cement per 100 catties 0.065 3. Cotton yarns of all sorts per 100
catties
4.180
A. From nos. 15 to 20 of the Dutch
colour standard
B. Exceeding no. 20 of the Dutch
colour standard
0.827
0.748
RULES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF FABRICS. In determining the breadth of fabrics for the purpose of inposing the tax at Custom-houses, fractions under half an inch shall not be counted, and fractions over half an inch shall be taken as one inch.
The woven hem shall be excluded from measurement.
MURDEROUS OUTRAGE ON BOARD A RIVER STEAMER.
On her last voyage up to Hankow from Shanghai an occurrence took place on board the Yuenwo of a nature so serious that is was only by the merest accident that it did not result in great loss of life and considerable damage to the ship. On the night of the 1st inst. when she was steaming up the Yangtsze, about 14 miles away from Shanghai, a heavy, dull explosion was heard and a shock felt over the whole vessel.
had
At first it was thought that she run down a junk in the dark, but it was speedily ascertained that the dis- turbance was really due to an explosion in the compradore's room, which was found to be com- pletely wrecked, and the compradore, who was asleep at the time, was discovered lying un- conscious on deck among the ruins of his bunk. Happily he was not seriously hurt, and he soon recovered his senses, but he was unable to explain anything about the affair beyond what was apparent to everyone on board. Subse- quently the remains of a cotton bag, all
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