The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-12

| ta) The direct bounties granted to ex-
ports
Cb) The direct bounties granted to pro-
duction.
(c) The total or partial exemptions
from taxation granted for a part of the
manufactured output.
I'D The profits derived from surplus
ages of output.
(e) The profits derived from the ex-
aggeration of the drawback.
% The advantages derived from any
surtaX in excess of the rate fixed by
Article III.
ARTICLE IL
The high contracting parties bind them
selves to submit to bond regime the sugar
factories and refineries. as well as those
factories in which sugar is extracted from
molasses, in order that they shall be I'M
der the permanent surveillance, day and
night. of the customs employees.
With this object, factories will be ar
ranged in such way as to prevent the
taking away of sugar cladestinely, and
the customs employees will have the right
to enter every department of the fac
tories.
Books of control in regard to any or
several phases of production will be kept,
and the manufactured sugars will be de-
posted in such special buildings will
afford every desirable guarantee of Sc
curity.
ARTICLE III
The high contracting parties bind them
selves to limit the surtax to a maximum
of francs per 100 Kilograms (s115 per 220
pounds) for the refined sugar and the
sugars assimilable thereto, and $50 francs
t$1.O6) for other sugars; that is to say,
the difference between the rate of duty
or taxation to which foreign sugars are
subjected and that imposed on the home
product.
This provision is not to be applied to
the rates of import duties in the case
of countries that do not produce sugar,
nor to the by-products of the manufac-
turing or refining of sugar.
ARTICLE ".
The high contracting parties bind them
selves to impose a special duty on i'm
ports into their respective territories of
sugars from countries that grant boun-
ties for production or exports
This duty shall not be less than the
amount of the bounties, direct or indi-
rect, granted in the country of origin.
The high parties reserve to themselves
he privilege. each as it may affect it's
own interests, to prohibit the importa-
ion of bounty-fed sugars.
For the estimation of the sum of ad- !
'antages derived eventually from the sur
AK specified under Section F of Article :
, the rate fixed by Article III is de-
!ucted from the amount of this surtax;
lalf of the difference is held to repre-
ent the bounty the permanent commits /
ion organized under Article VII being |
at the request of one of the
States, to alter the rate 50
rovided for.
ARTICLE V
The high contracting parties bind them
elves reciprocally to admit at the low
st of their respective import rates SUI
ars imported from any Of the contract
lg States from any colonies or pos
5ssions of said States that do not grant
ounties and to which the obligations
imposed in Article VIII apply.
Cane and beet sugars cannot be sub
scted TO different rates of duty.
ARTICLE VI
Spain. Italy and Sweden are not held to
le obligation imposed in Articles l. II
I'd III, so long as they do not export
lgar.
These States bind themselves to adapt
leir sugar legislation to the provisions
the convention-within one year, or 7
lrlier if possible-from the time that
lie permanent commission has verified
lat the above condition has ceased to
list.
ARTICLE VII.
The high contracting parties agree to
cate a permanent commission, having
large of the surveillance of the execu
1n of the provisions of the present
invention.
This commission will be composed of
legates of the different contracting
ates and TO it will be attached a per
anent bureau. The commission elects
president it will sit at Brussels, and
II meet on the call Of the president 4
rhe duties of the delegates shall be;
a. To verify whether, in the contract III
: States any direct or indirect bounty II
: the production or export of sugars Il
granted. HI
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