While export duties' will continue in general to be imposed in accordance with the out-going tariff, the rates on "some export commodities will be reduced or cancelled.
The revenue surtax collected until yesterday, the statement said, will be replaced by a relief surtax of 5 per cent. the funds to be used for the MP. Asks How Japanese Are Using Funds London, May 31.
The question of Chinese Customs revenue was raised again in the House of|Commons yesterday, when Mr. David Adams, Labour member for the Consett division of Durham, asked whether the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, had any information to: show the extent to which Chinese Customs revenue.
by Japan, was being employed in warfare against China.
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for. Foreign Affairs, replied that he presumed Mr. Adams referred to the Customs revenues in Tient:
These, he declared. were now dè- posited in the Yokohama Specie Bank, but it was impossible to say to what precise use there the sums were being put—Reuter. A chef of the distressed areas.
(Export and import duties will, according to the statement, continue to be collected from goods shipped to and from Manchoukuo and the Kw tung Leesed Territory.
The statement read in parti)
"Customs duties comprise a substantial part of the national revenue, and have.a close and important relation to commerce and industry "In the light of the present state of industry and economy and of the national standard of living in this country, the existing tariff has beef deemed in many respects unreasonable and unsuitable, and its revision has naturally been a matter of urgent necessity.
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