CHINESE CUSTOMS TARIFF

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 71, 17 December 1928, Page 11

CHINESE CUSTOMS TARIFF

BRITISH COMMENT (British Ottiem) Wireless.) Rugby, December 14. Mr. J. Locker-Lampson, Under-Sec-retary for Foreign Affairs, in a written reply to a Parliamentary question, states that in the Note dated December 5 the Minister for Foreign Affairs for China notified the British Minister that a new Chinese Customs tariff had been promulgated, and would come into force on February 1. With the exception of certain articles which are subject to special rates, the rates of duty, appear to be ideutical with those of the interim schedule accepted by the foreign delegations in 1926. The Commercial Secretary at Shanghai has been instructed to make a detailed examination of the tariff and report any discrepancies. No reply, so far as he was aware, had been returned to the Note of the Foreign Minister. . Mr, Locker-Lampsou states that Sir Miles Lampson’s visit to Nanking does not indicate recognition of the National Government of China by the British Government, but a de jure recognition would be a necessary consequence of the signature of any treaty which might be concluded as the result of the negotiations which Sir Miles Lamjson is now conducting.