Done at Nanking, and signed and sealed by the Plenipotentiaries on board Her Britannick Majesty's ship "Cornwallis," this twenty-ninth day of August 1842; corresponding with the Chinese date, twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, in the twenty-second year of Taoukwang. [Signed in the English and Chinese Languages.] WHEREAS by the tenth Article of the Treaty between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, concluded and signed on board Her Britannick Majesty's ship "Cornwallis," at Nanking, on the 29th day of August 1842, corresponding with the Chinese date 24th day of the 7th month, in the 22d year of Taoukwang, it is stipulated and agreed, that His Majesty the Emperor of China shall establish at all the ports which, by the second Article of the said Treaty, are to be thrown open for the resort of British merchants, a fair and regular Tariff of export and import customs and other dues; which Tariff shall be publicly notified and promulgated for general information; and further, that when British merchandize shall have once paid, at any of the said ports, the regulated customs and dues, agreeably to the Tariff to be hereafter fixed, such merchandize may be conveyed by Chinese merchants to any province or city in the interior of the empire of China, on paying a further amount of duty as transit duty; And whereas the rate of transit duty to be so levied was not fixed by the said Treaty ; Now, therefore, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of Her Britannick Majesty, and of His Majesty the Emperor of China, do hereby, on proceeding to the exchange of the Ratifications of the said Treaty, agree and declare, that the further amount of duty to be so levied on British merchandize, as transit duty, shall not exceed the present rates, which are upon a moderate scale; and the Ratifications of the said Treaty are exchanged subject to the express declaration and stipulation herein contained. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Declaration, and have affixed thereto their respective seals. Done at Hong-Kong, the 26th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; corresponding with the Chinese date, Taoukwang twenty-third year, fifth month, and twenty-ninth day. HENRY POTTINGER. (L. S.) TRADE TARIFF of DUTIES on the FOREIGN TRADE with CHINA. Established in pursuance of Article X. of the Treaty. EXPORTS. 1 Álum, 3 Arsenic, Oil of, per 100 Catties 0 5 per 100 Catties 0 Glass Armlets), T. M. C. C. 7 5 0 4 Bangles (or per 100 Catties 0 5 0 0 5 Bamboo Screens and Bamboo Ware of all kinds, per 100 Catties 6 Brass Leaf, 7 Building Materials, 8 Bone and Horn Ware, per 100 0 2 0 0 per 100 Catties 10 Canes of all kinds, 11 Capoor Cutchery, per 100 Catties per thousand 0 500 12 Cassia, per 100 Catties 0 7 5 0 Do. Buds, per 100 Catties 1 000 13 China Root, per 100 Catties 5 per 100 Catties 0 000 2 0 0 14 China Ware, all kinds, per 100 Catties 0500 15 Clothes (ready made), per 100 Catties 0500 16 Copper Ware, Pewter do., &c. per 100 Catties 0500 17 Corals (or false Coral), per 100 18 Crackers and Fire-works of all kinds, per 100 Catties 19 Cubebs, per 100 Catties 20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.), per 100 Catties 21 Furniture of all kinds, per 100 Catties 22 Galingal, per 100 Catties 25 Glass Beads, per 100 Catties 27 Grass Cloth (all kinds), per 100 28 Hartall, per 100 Catties 29 Ivory Ware, all kinds, per 100 Catties 30 Kittysols, or Paper Umbrellas, per 100 Catties 31 Lacquered Ware, all kinds, per 100 Catties 32 Lead (White Lead), per 100 33 Lead (Red Lead), per 100 Catties 34 Marble Slabs, per 100 Catties 35 Mats (Straw, Rattan, Bamboo, &c. &c.), per 100 Catties 36 Mother o' Pearl Ware, per 100 Catties 37 Musk, per Catty 38 Nankeen, and Cotton Cloth of all kinds, per 100 Catties 39 Pictures, viz. large Paintings, Rice Paper Pictures, per 100 40 Paper Fans, per 100 Catties 400 . 0 5 0 0 41 Paper of all kinds, per 100 Catties 42 Pearls (i. e. false Pearls), per 100 Catties 43 Preserves and Sweetmeats of all kinds, per 100 Catties 44 Rattan work of all kinds, per 100 Catties 45 Rhubarb, per 100 Catties 46 Silk, raw, whether from Che- Organzine, all kinds, per 100 T. M. C. C. 0500 0500 0500 10 000 2 500 Silk Piece Goods, of all kinds, 47 Silk and Cotton mixtures, Silk 48 Shoes and Boots, of Leather, Satin, or otherwise, per 100 Catties 49 Sandal Wood Ware, per 100 Catties 50 Soy, per 100 Catties. 10 0 0 0 |