1926

SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN 175
The ad valorem duties established by the said Tariff shall, so far as may be
led practicable, be converted into specific duties by a supplementary Convention,
ilrhich shall be concluded between the two Governments within six months from the
'JaM-te of this Protocol; the medium prices, as shown by the Japanese Customs
yReturns during the six calendar months preceding the date of the present Protocol,
yvrith the addition of the cost of insurance and transportation from the place of
jipurchase, production or fabrication, to the port of discharge, as well as commission,
Jif any, shall be taken as the basis for such conversion. In the event of the
; Supplementary Convention not having come into force at the expiration of the period
i for the said Tariff to take effect, ad valorem duties in conformity with the rule
J'S recited at the end of the said Tariff shall, in the meantime, be levied.
J In respect of articles not enumerated in the said Tariff, the General Statutory
I Tariff of Japan for the time being in force shall, from the same time, apply, subject,
ai as aforesaid, to the provisions of Article XXIII. of the Treaty of 1858 and Articles
tl V. and XV. of the Treaty signed this day, respectively.
J Prom the date the Tariffs aforesaid take effect, the Import tariff now in opera-
rjf tion in Japan in respect of goods and merchandise imported into Japan by British
subjects shall cease to be binding.
In all other respects the stipulations of the existing Treaties and Conventions
a shall be maintained unconditionally until the time when the Treaty of Commerce
and Navigation signed this day comes into force.
2. —The Japanese Government, pending the opening of the country to British
subjects, agrees to extend the existing passport system in such a manner as to allow
British subjects, on the production of a certificate of recommendation from the
British Kepresentative in Tokyo, or from any of Her Majesty’s Consuls at the open
ports in Japan, to obtain upon application passports available for any part of the
country, and for any period not exceeding twelvemonths, from the Imperial Japanese
Foreign Office in Tokyo, or from the chief authorities in the Prefecture in which an
open port is situated ; it being understood that the existing Buies and Begulations
governing British subjects who visit the interior of the Empire are to be maintained.
3. —The Japanese Government undertakes, before the cessation of British
Consular jurisdiction in Japan, to join the International Conventions for the Pro¬
tection of Industrial Property and Copyright.
4. —It is understood between the two high contracting parties that, if Japan
thinks it necessary at any time to levy an additional duty on the production or
manufacture of refined sugar in Japan, an increased customs duty equivalent in
amount may be levied on British refined sugar when imported into Japan, so long
as such additional excise tax or inland duty continues to be raised.
Provided always that British refined sugar shall in this respect be entitled to
the treatment accorded to refined sugar being the produce or manufacture of the
most favoured nation.
5.—The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protocol shall be
submitted to the two high contracting parties at the same time as the Treaty of
Commerce and Navigation signed this day, and that when the said Treaty is ratified
the agreements contained in the Protocol shall also equally be considered as
approved, without the necessity of a further formal ratification.
It is agreed that this Protocol shall terminate at the same time the said Treaty
ceases to be binding.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and
have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done at London, in duplicate, this sixteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.
[L.S.] Kimberley. [l*s*] Akoi.
[In place of the Tariff above referred to are given in the following pages the Tariff
officially promulgated in 1906, which embodies all the changes effected by Treaties urith
other Powers.']