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Transcript from
THE CHINA YEAR BOOK, 1913
Chapter 10


COMMERCE

China's Treaties, etc.*

* Footnote — The text of these Treaties (where ratified before 1907)
will be found in Hertslet's China Treaties (Vol. I),
and in the List of Chinese Treaties
published by the Imperial Maritime Customs in 1908.

A. With Great Britain

DATE.

SUBJECT MATTER.

(1) 1842, Aug. 29
(Nanking, Treaty).

Peace. Indemnity. Cession of Hongkong. Ports opened. Institution of Tariff Duties.

(2) 1843, June 26
(Hongkong).

Declaration confirming Transit Duties at existing rate. (Amended 1858.)

(3) 1843, July.

General Regulations for British Trade at Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai. Embodied in No. 4.

(4) 1843, Oct. 8.

Supplementary Treaty of Commerce.

(5) 1846, April 4
(Bocca Tigris, Convention).

Admission of Foreigners into Canton postponed. Chusan evacuated by British.

(6) 1847, April 6
(Agreement).

Canton to be opened in two years time. Trade at Honan. Erection of Churches at Ports of Trade.

(7) 1858, June 26
(Tientsin, Treaty).

Peace. Appointment of Ambassadors and Consuls. Religious Toleration. Eight ports opened. Administration of Justice. Revision of Tariff Navigation. Veto on use of expression "Barbarian."

(8) 1858, Nov. 8
(Shanghai, Agreement).

Rules of Trade. Tariff of Imports and Exports. Transit Dues.

(9) 1860, Oct. 24
(Peking, Convention).

Peace. Residence in Peking of British Minister. Tientsin opened. Cession of Kowloon.

(10) 1865, Oct. 27
(Peking, Agreement).

Articles relative to Customs. Seizures at Shanghai.

(11) 1866, March 5
(Peking, Convention).

Regulations for engagement of Chinese emigrants.

(12) 1869, Oct. 23
(Peking, Convention).

Supplementary regulations for commerce and navigation. Ports opened.

(13) 1876, Sept. 13
(Chefoo, Agreement).

Settlement of Yunnan case. Official Intercourse and Trade between the two countries. Ports opened.

(14) 1880, Dec. 10
(Peking, Agreement).

Personal Relations and Official Intercourse and Trade between Consular Officers and Provincial Authorities.

(15) 1885, July 18
(London).

Additional Article to Chefoo Agreement. Traffic in Opium.

(16) 1886, July 24
(Peking, Convention).

Relative to Burma and Tibet.

(17) 1886, Sept. 11
(Hongkong, Agreement).

Opium Trade at Hongkong.

(18) 1890, March 17
(Calcutta).

Sikkim and Tibet. Boundary. Trade.

(19) 1890, March 31
(Peking, Additional Article).

Chungking to be a Treaty Port.

(20) 1893, Dec. 5
(Darjeeling, Regulations)

Supplementing Sikkim-Tibet Convention. Yatung opened to trade.

(21) 1894, March 1
(London, Convention).

Burma and China. Boundary. Trade.

(22) 1894, Sept. 6
(Tientsin, Convention).

Junction of Chinese and Burmese Telegraph Lines.

(23) 1897, Feb. 4
(Peking, Agreement).

Modification of 21. Opening of Ports on West River.

(24) 1898, Feb. 9-11
(Peking, Exchange of Notes).

"China will never alienate any territory in the provinces adjoining the Yangtze to any other Power."

(25) 1898, June 9
(Peking, Convention).

Extension of Hongkong Territory.

(26) 1898, July 1
(Peking, Convention).

Lease of Weihaiwei.

(27) 1901, Sept. 7
(Peking, Final Protocol).

Resumption of Friendly Relations. Indemnity for Boxer Rising. Legation Quarter. Reforms Waiwupu.

(28) 1902, Aug. 29
(Shanghai, Agreement).

New Chinese Import Tariff.

(29) 1902, Sept. 5
(Shanghai, Mackay Treaty).

Commercial Relations.

(30) 1904, May 13
(London, Convention).

Chinese Labour in British Colonies.

(31) 1905, May 23
(Peking, Convention).

Revision of 22. Chinese and Burmese Telegraph Lines.

(32) 1905, Sept. 27
(Peking, Agreement).

Huangpu Conservancy.

(33) 1906, April 27
(Peking, Convention).

Tibet. Confirming Anglo-Tibetan Treaty of September 7, 1904.

(34) 1911, May 8
(Peking).

Importation of Opium.




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