Mr. Frank Rhea Tells of Efforts to Place Americans on Equality with Others Mr. Frank Rhea, Registrar of the China Trade Act) Department of S.A, has just return. hai after a year spent} in the United States," mostly in Washington, in the interests of American "business in China, The "object of his trip, Mr, Rhea told a representative of the "North-China Daily News," was to have the China Trade Act' amended 30 a3 to put American business interests resident in China on equal footing, from the standpoi of taxation, with other nationals in China, especially as regards accounting as agents for American manufacturers. None of the other nationals residing and doing _busi-ress in China under extraterritorial rights is subject to home taxation, while American interests pay federal taxation in full, which arrangement is sustained' by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, of May 5, 1924, 'The' effect of the above decision, according to Mr. Rhea, is that American merchants resident in Chiia not only are confronted with commutation of the products of other nationals, but are subject to the competition of other nationals acting as agents for American manufacturers of competing 'The other nationals, not being Ject to Chinese taxes, their own home taxes, or the American federal tax, can undersell the American agent, who, while not being subject to Chinese' taxes, is subject in full to his own home tax.
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