Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-29
NEW CHINESE TREATY
TERMS OF TIE COMPACT
SIGNED At SHANGHAI
ADVANTAGEOUS TO AMERICAN
TRADE-LIkIN TAX AND THE
METHOD OF COLLECT.
ING TARIFFS.

Washington, Oct. S.--ThG state De-
partment was informed today that the
American.Chinese commercial treaty
has been signed at Shanghai The
cablegram announcing the signing of
the treaty was sent from Shanghai and
was signed by Minister COnger, Consul
General Goodnow and Mr. Seaman, the
three commissioners who negotiated
the instrument. An imperial decree
by the Chinese Government has made
the treaty effective so far as that Gov.
eminent Is concerned, but II must be
ratified by the United States Senate
before ratification can be exchanged
and the treaty put in operation.
Great satisfaction Is expressed at
the State Department at the outcome.
It makes certain that the two ports in
Manchuria will be opened to the United
States no matter what the outcome as
to the negotiations for the evacuation
of that territory by Russia may be.
The assurance that Russia had prev
iously given and to which this Govern
ment would insist upon Is that the
treaty arrangements made with China
covering Manchurian ports will be
binding upon the Russian Govern
ment.
The negotiations between China and
the United States. which eliminated
in the treaty signed today at Shang-
hal, were initiated under the provi-
l.. Al.
col, signed by the powers at Picking
on September 9Th, 1901, terminating
the anti.foreign outbreak of the pre-
Ceding year. The present treaty has
for its object to extend the CONNER
cial relations between the contracting
powers by amending our existing
treaty of commerce and navigation
with China and other subjects con.
corning commercial relations with the
object of facilitating them.
Articles /, . and refer to the rights
and privileges Of diplomatic officers,
Consuls and citizens of the United
States In China and embody a number
of changes which have been sanction.
ed by usage In China since the treaty
OF 1858.
Article 4 Is the most important Of
the treaty. BY II the Chinese Govern
ment, recognizing that the present sys'
TEN OF lcvying dues upon goods In
transit and especially the system of
taxation known as lildn, impedes the
free circulation of commodities TO the
general injury of trade, undertakes,
after the ratification of the treaty and
at date to be mutually agreed upon,
Ito abandon the levy Of likin and other
transit dues throughout the empire.
and to abolish ALI the barriers and tax
stations maintained Tor their collec'
ltion. The United States, in consider
alton of this change, agrees, II all 9th
er powers having treaties with China
do likewise, to pay at the port OF entry
on all its imports into China surtaA
OF one and One.nalf times the tarlff I'm
port duty. BY this payment they shall
assure complete immunity from al
other taxation whatsoever in the EN-
pre. Exports from China shall pay
u per cent. ad valorem (as at pres
cnO, the whole amount Of the duty be
ing collected at the port Of eXporta
ton. These are the salient points o
this article, which officials believe
may bring about complete aud salts
factory reform in the fiscal admins
tration of the empire, and enable tn
central Governments to derive mucI
larger sums from the internal take
than It now does, when the cost Of co
lection is perhaps so per cent. OF tn
whole.
The remaining provisions of articl