Daily national Republican., 1863-09-30
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DrrAarns.r OF STATE
wAsnInoTon, sept. ., 49,
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LxoAS,oH ~ TINE UNITED srArrs,l
PEKIH, June -, 1855.
SIR: am most happy to inform you that the
Imperial Government, In response to my re- |
quest for an extension Of time In which TO re- |
export native produce, from three to twelve |
months, has most handsomely met my wishes. |
This change win do much for the trsde Of all I
| nations, and puts us under many obligations 70
the Chinese. You will find the correspond
ence attached, marked A, B, and c.
| have the honor to be, sir, your obedient
servant, ANsoN BuRLNoAhs.
Hon. WV. II. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
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LEGATION OF THE UNITED srArEs,(
| PrKn, April 10, 1853. !
To Prtncr Kung, CAieJ serHsvy for Torstgn A6airc
| have the honor to inform your imperial
Highness that that portion Of the Yaugtage
Kiang Regulations which requires native pro-
duce to be re.exported within three months, II
the merchant would recover the coast trade
duty charged at the river port, has been found
to work great hardship both to Chinese and
foreigners, and most respect fully request that
the time may be extended to twelve months.
= II II Is not done the merchants In Shanghai
D will be compelled to open large establishments
= in the interior, thus overthrowing the business
arrangements of the Chinese and creating fesh
sources of trouble. Now the Chinese hesitate
!, about sending goods to Shanghai for sale, be.
cause II by any chance cause sales are delayed
for three months they will lose the coast trade
duty. Indeed, II has been found impossible to
y sell goods within the three months allowed.
:. Thus this rule is Q positive hindrance to com
merce and deprves the Imperial Government
- of those revenues II would otherwise receive
from a larger sale Of produce. The change
y ask would not hurt any body, but would help
everybody.
" therefore feel confident your Imperial High
- ness will hasten to relieve commerce from the
- burden put upon it.by that rule. I have, &C.,
- ASsoS BURiISGAME.
- His Imperial Highness, Prince KUSG, Chief
- Secretary of the Chinese Government for
Foreign Affairs, herewith replies:
" / have the honor to acknowledge commu,
90 = nication from your Excellency, in which you
show that the drawback certificates for hall
=, y. duty on goods stored for Ie-export should not
be limited tc three mosths-a period much too
o., SHORTCUT ought to be extended TO full year.
:, It appears that the merchants who bring native
~ ~ produce down the Ysngtsy Kiang to Shanghai
~ pay full tariff export duty when II leaves It's
,, original port, and half duty when to be reex-
- ported to another port. Such produce, being
j. duly reported 10 the customs when the mer-
% chant wishes 10 send 1t out Of port, pays half
:. duty; and II 1t Is within three months he can
re-enter It at another port on presentation OF
;. !, the drawback certificate, which is received as
y. n valid for the duty.
Now, since that in the dispatch under reply
your Excelleney observes that the time for three
40 months allowed In the drawback certificates
- during which this produce must be reexported
"u must be regarded as much too short, Ihave ex
y" tended the limit to year. Therefore, afte
M this date, whenever produce, brought down tn
'a Ysngtsy to Shanghai, has been reported to thu
a' = customs for reexportation at any time within
~ a year, they shall, on ascertainIng that the
~ goods are in their original packages, neither
- broken open nor sbstractcd from, and their
number and weight correct, and all particulars
tally with the original report, grant draw
y back certificate for half duty, to be substituted
" for the former certificate, and delivered to the
~ holder OF the goods as evidence Of the duty
having been paid.
| shall inform the Superintendent of Com
merce respecting this regulation, and instruc
him to send orders to the customs' officers 70
VI them to act accordingly; and now, likewise
send this reply to your rxcellency, requestin
IA. that you will inform yourself upon the Who'll
sa- subject.
in To his Excellency ASsos BuRLIGAxE, &c.. NJ
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