Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-01-28
The Commercial Treaty.

The following is the full text of
the commercial treaty signed on the
same day:
The President of the United
States of America and his Imperial
Majesty, the Emperor of China, be-
cause of cert"in points of incom-
pletencss in the existing treaties be-
tween the two Governments, have
named as their Commissioners Plen-
ipotentiary: the President of the
United States of America, James 3.
Angel of Michigan, John f. Swift
of California, and William H. Tres
colt of South Carolina, as his Com
missioners Plenipotentiary, and his
Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of
China, has appointed Pao Chung,
a member of his Imperial Majesty's
Drivy Council and Superintendent
of the Board of Civil Office, and III
Hung Taso, a member of his I'm
perial Majesty's Privy Council, as
his Commissioners Plenipotentiary,
and the said Commissioners Pleni-
potentiary having conformity ex-
amincd their full powers, and hav-
ing discussed the points of possible
notifications in existing treaties :,
have agreed upon the following ad-
ditional articles:
ARTICLE I.
The Government of the United
States and China, recognizing the
benefits of their past commercial re-
lations, and in order to still further
promote such relations between the
citizens and subjects of the two
powers, mutually agree to give the
most careful and favorable attention
to the representations of either as to
such special extension of CONNER
cial intercourse as either may desire.
ARTICLE IL.
The Governments of China and Of
the United States mutually agree
AID undertake that Chinese subjects
shall not be permitted to import op-
ium in any of the ports of the Uni
ted States, and citizens of the United
States shall not be permitted to i'm
port opium into any of the open
ports of China, or to transport from
one open port to any other open
port, or to buy and sell opium in
any of the open ports of China.
This absolute prohibition, which ex-
tends to vessels owned by the citi-
zens or subjects of either power,
to foreign vessels employed by
them, or to vessels owned by the
citizens or subjects of either power,
and employed by other persons for
transportation of opium, shall be
enforced by appropriate Legislation
on the part of China and the United
States, and the benefits of the fav-
ored claims in existing treaties shall
not he claimed by the citizens or
subjects of either power as against
the provisions of this article.
ARTICLE III.
His Imperial Majesty, the Emper-
or of China, hereby promises and
agrees that no other kind or higher
rate of tonnage dues or duties for
imports or exports or coastwise trade
shall be imposed or levied in the
open ports of China upon vessels
wholly belonging to citizens of the
United States, or upon the produce,
manufactures or merchandise i'm
ported on the same from the United
States or from any foreign country,
or upon the produce, manufactures
or merchandise exported in the
same to the United States, or to any
foreign country, or transported in
the same from one open port of
China to another, than are imposed
or levied on vessels or carSoes OF
any other nation, or on those CT
China subjects. The United States
hereby promises and agrees that nc
other kind or higher rate OF tonnage
dues or duties for imports shall be
imposed or levied III the ports OF
the United States upon vessels
wholly belonging to the subjects Of
his imperial majesty coming either
directly or by way OF any foreign