With a view to applying more effectually the principles of the pen Door or equality of oppor-{unity in China for the trade and istry of all nations, the Conracting Powers, other than China, gree that they' will not seek, nor <opport their respective nationals Any arrangement which night purport to establish savour of their interests any gen-val superiority of with, expect to commercial or economic Sevelopment in any designated re-sion of Chinas (b.) Any such monopoly or preerence ax would deprive the nationals of any other Power of undertaking any in thine, or of participating with the Phineke Government, or with any ical authority, in any category of able enterprise, or which by tarau of its scope, duration or eouraphical extent is calculated tw frustrate the practical appli Yon of the principle of il observe the obliga any of neutral-
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