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TREATY—-CHINA. October 8, 1903.

Chinese free list.



  1. Foreign Rice, cereals and flour, gold and silver coined and uncoined.
  2. Legations supplies from abroad.
  3. Supplies for the use of Foreign forces, Military and Naval.
  4. Official stationary actually transmitted by Foreign Government Departments for Foreign Consulates.
  5. Supplies under Government stores Certificates.
  6. Materials for Railways the import of which "free" is provided for by agreements antedating the Peace Protocol.
  7. Samples; in reasonable quantities certified for show and not for sale.
  8. Circulars, etc., distributed gratis by mercantile houses.
  9. The bona fide baggage of travelers, i. e., passengers' luggage arriving either with the owner or by a vessel other than that by which the passenger travels.
  10. Clothing, books, pictures, and furniture already in use when brought in by residents and not for sale.

N. B. Ships Coal and provisions are entitled to drawbacks.

[Note by Department of State.—John Goodnow, consul-general of the United States at Shanghai, China, was instructed by the Secretary of State to sign the foregoing Schedule of Tariff Duties in the absence of the tariff commissioner, Thad. S. Sharretts, who had returned to the United States.]
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