The Archive · 1939

Eastern Bloc's Interests

The plan provides for the following:

Consideration for the taxing capacity of the Chinese masses, facilities for economic collaboration between Japan, Manchoukuo and China, and the revenue of the new China regimes; these to form the keynotes of the new Customs system; Speedy abolition of export duties, interport duties and other misceltaneous taxes; if this should prove impracticable a unification of these items will be attempted; Employment in the Customs service of persons well qualified for such duties; Simplification of Customs documents and declarations; Abolition of ordinances stipulating the use of certificates of imports and of origin; Simplification of various Customs procedures.—Dom

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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