To the Editor of the Nomni-Cumea Darty News"
Sm—Whilst giving the Chinese Maritime Customs full credit for their efforts to stop" the smuggling Attiteial Silk Yarn from Dalen, 1 unfortunate that the Customs have yet been. able to. come to som arrangement with the Postal Admin-{stration to levy import duty on the extensive postal trate between Cans ton' andthe Shanghai local district jot Arica Si Yarn have been: shipt For some time past large quantities
ped and are. still being shipped, ex fond here to Hongkong, whence' the {foods are transferred to Canton funks and landed there outside Customs. jurisdiction to be sent back to [Shanghai by parcel post.
"This postal tralic has now reached enormous proportions and as many as {1000 eases, each containing 200 Th. fof yarn, have been shipped to Hong-rong in one week. As. the import uty on each ease would have Been Spproximately $240, its easy to see the. tremendous loss to. the customs Fevenue, "This. is reflected in. the castoms returns for the frst half of {his year, as during this period' only 014 cases of Artincial Sik Yarn paid uly to the Customs as compared with fan average of 5,170 cases exch month during inst year. Assuming that the imports this year would have been Spproximately" the same as la 1953, the, lose to the customs revenue' fo June this year already amounts to lover seven million dollars, whereas the revenue received by the. Postal Administration on the postal parcels cannot be anywhere near this enor: mous sum.
Surely in no other country in the ]world, would' such a. state of affairs be allowed to. prevail, and it would appear that it" only needs alittle feedwitt between the two government departments in Nanking 40 stop this lose of revenue.
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