THE PUDLIC 1s HEREBY NOTIFIED that, in accordance with the provisional regulations promulgated by the Government to control the importation from abroad of weighing and measuring instruments (BE tf & HW A 8 4T HWY), such instruments will be forbidden ' importation from, abroad unless they have been inspected and found up to standard by one of the local Weights and Measures Bureaux.
From the Ist October 1937 the following procedure will be enforced, (a) A merchant wishing to import weighing and measuring instruments from abroad will, as a first step, present all the relevant invoices, contracts, etc, to, the Bureau, who will thereupon issue a Provisional it to Import. The merchant/ will\then present this provisional permit to the Customs, together with an additional' copy of his Import Application, and apply for importation in the usual manner. Applications to import, if not supported by the above provisional permit, will not be accepted by the Customs. If all is in order, the Customs will levy duty, allow the merchant to take delivery of his cargo, endorse the additional Import ' Application handed in by the merchant, and transmit it to the Bureau, (b) It will then be the duty; of the merchant to transport his cargo to the Bureau for inspection, and the Bureau will take any steps they think appropriate to ensure that this is done (og., prior to issuing the provisional permit, the Bureau may require the merchant to pay a deposit or execute some form of guarantee).
It the instruments imported are passed by the Bureau, the deposit will be returned to the merchant (or the bond, if such has been demanded, will be cancelled); but if any, or all, of the goods are not passed by the Bureau, the merchant will be directed to bring them back to the Customs and apply for _re-exportation abroad, the deposit or bond in the meantime still being retained by the Bureau, At the same time, in order to acquaint the Customs with particulars of the instruments which have been rejected, the Bureau will return to the Customs the additional copy of the original Import Application which was formerly forwarded to them by the Customs, and will indicate on this Application which of the instruments are to be re-exported. The Customs will then permit re-exportation abroad, granting the merchant a drawback for the import duty, ete., originally paid, and will again return the ad&itional' Import Application to the Bureau. with an endorsement to the effect that the rejected goods have actually been re-exported, whereupon the Bureau will refund the deposit previously retained or cance] the guarantee, as the case may be.
It is to be further noted that the direct importation from abroad of weighing and measuring—instruments at Soochow or Wuhu will be prohibited and that merchants wishing to effect such importations at the above two ports ate to apply in the first instance at Shanghai.
CHU CHANG-NIEN, Superintendent of Customs.
H, LAWFORD, Commissioner of Customs, CUSTOM HOUSE,
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