The Archive · 1902

The New Tariff and Treaty

London via Bombay, 30th August.

The imperial approval of the Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty has reached Shanghai, and the treaty is to be signed to-day. The Chinese Commissioners signed the Protocol Tariff yesterday, and it comes into force on the 31st of October.—Reuter, SIst August.

An Imperial Edict has been issued abolishing likin stations throughout China, and declaring that during the negotiations for new commercial freities with Foreign States, an understanding has been reached for an increase of the import and export AN

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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