Nanking, Mar. 19, To ensure that no inferior kind of Chinese tea is exported for foreign markets, the Ministry of Industry to-day announced a set of regulations which stipulated that all tea intended for export must frst be strictly examined by the Government Testing Bureau.
Under these regulations. only several kinds of listed green and black tea may be exported, while tea. bricks of inferior quality are strictly banned, The regulations stipulate that the amount of moisture contained Diack tea bricks for export must not exceed ten per cent, while other kinds of tea leaves and bricks, to be exportable, are to be evaporated to such an extent that they do not con-{ain more than eleven per cent. of moisture—Central News.
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