To the Editor of the ""Nowru-Cuna Dany News, Sm—I was interested to read your leader on Customs Dues and Autonomy in your to-day's issue.
There ie one form of likin which you in common with most news aper correspondents omit any" Tes ference to, and yet which Is one of the heaviest forms of likin" now collected in Chinn. It is the Coast. Jai Trade Daties at present levied by the Chineve Maritime Customs on native goods steamer-borne between, 'Treaty' Ports in China, Tt is the (Go-called export duty levied on cods at the port of shipment and the halt duty levied on' the same cods at the port of discharge. It one full treaty tariff duty plus 4 surtax on shipment-and one halt full treaty tant duty play a sure tax on discharge.
Tt can. be abolished and ought to be abolished. As Sir Austen Cham Derlain, when writing on August 1927, and refer The other taxes mentioned in this category are-collected by the Martitime Customs and can in fact be effectively abolished by stroke of the pens This would be 4 great relief to trade nob, 30 uch on account of the amount of the tax remitted but because would remo The Chinese and foreign morcane tile community could with advanc tage unite forces to press for the prompt abolition of these vexatious levies, and you would do well to your influence to press this reform, T am, ete
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