London, June 13.
Commenting on the difficulties of the British trader in China. owing to the illegal imposition of {dues by provincial authorities in defiance of the Treaty of 1842, thd "Times" says that if the provinces which lately imposed a 20 per cent. ad valorem duty upon imported cigarettes are allowed to imposd these illegal taxes it will only bd a matter of time when other provinces will follow their example and again tax all imported goods. Seemingly only the residents of the provinces concerned can make really useful protests, for it is the consumers in these places who have really to pay these illegal impositions.—Reuter.
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