Tokyo, Apr. 22.
Ringing down the curtain on the Panay incident, the Japa~ nese Government today paid the sum of U.S. $2,214,007.36 to the American Embassy as indemnity demanded for the sinking of the U.S. gunboat in the Yangtze last December—Domei, With regard to revision of taritt ates on goods exported from North China, the Japan Chamber of Commerce urges that the exemption principle should be adopted in the North China tariff, and duties should be collected only from items clearly mentioned in the customs tariff, The items subject to export duties, the Chamber adds, should be simpli fled, and efforts should be made. to promote the exports of those items.
Finally, for the purpose of sim= pitying the Customs procedure in North China, the Chamber urges thal the filing-in of customs documents Ju the Japanese language should be recognized, and the number of Japanese officers in the Chinese Customs Service should be inereased.—Reuter.
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