Simultaneously with the enforcement of the new tariff schedule, the Customs, with the assistance of the Japanese authorities, will reassert its authority north of the Soochow Creek and in Pootung.
"The Government", the statement emphasized, "intends to prevent, with the ce-operation of friendly Powers, the evasion of duties, and to realize to the fullest degree the equitable protection of legitimate trade and the security of customs revenue and the service of obligation Emphasizing that the revision: is of\a temporary character the tatement said the Government "will éndeavour to bring into being more rational tariff policies as sogn as possible"; Until such a fundamental revision is effected, the Government will -retrain from making. frequent changes in the tariff which would impede the recovery of commerce and: industry, the statement added.
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