File 4377/1912 'Muscat Arms Traffic: Complaints of British Firms' [‎155r] (314/430)

Dec. 24, 1908.]
THE BOAED OF TEADE JOT7ENAL.
EXPORT CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN FOR BRITISH
REFINED SUGAR CONSIGNED TO CERTAIN BRITISH
COLONIES, POSSESSIONS AND PROTECTORATES.
The following Memorandum on the subject of Export Certificates
of Origin for consignments of British refined sugar to British
Colonies, Possessions and Protectorates has been issued by the
Commissioners of H.M. Customs for the information of refiners and
exporters:—
Memorandum.
1. In order to meet the requirements of the sugar export trade,
the Commissioners of Customs have, at the request of the Board of
Trade and with the concurrence of the Colonial Office, instructed
their Collectors to furnish, on application, export certificates of
origin in respect of British refined sugar to be exported to British
Colonies and Possessions which place restrictions on the importation
of Russian or bounty-fed sugar.
2. To exempt British refined sugar from these Colonial restric
tions, it must be accompanied on exportation by a certificate in an
approved form (Appendix A). The certificate will be to the effect
that the sugar particularised therein has been manufactured in the
United Kingdom from raw sugar originating in the countries
endorsed on the certificate, and it will be issued subject to the
conditions set out in the succeeding paragraphs.
3. The raw sugar, from which the sugar to be exported was
manufactured, must have been accompanied on importation by a
certificate of origin, issued by the fiscal authority of the country ot
export in similar form to that hitherto accepted, which would
enable it to be identified as not being the produce of any State
(including Russia) which has been declared by the Permanent
Sugar Commission to give bounties on the production or export of
sugar. Certificates issued by fiscal authorities in States which are
not parties to the Sugar Convention, must also show that the sugar
referred to is derived from a factory An East India Company trading post. which does not work sugar
from any bounty-giving State (including Russia), and must, as a
guarantee of due signature and issue, be vised by the proper
British Consul or Vice-Consul.
4. Raw sugars, for which w r hen refined an export certificate will
be required, are on receipt into the refinery to be stowed apart and
distinguished by mark from uncertificated raw sugars.
5. Refined sugar produced in refineries from the time when any
raw sugar, unaccompanied on importation by the certificate referred
to in paragraph 8, has been introduced into the manufacturing
processes until twelve working days after the last of such raw sugar
has been actually placed in the melting pan, will be held to be
ineligible for an export certificate bearing the names on non
bounty-giving countries only.
6. Refined sugars, which are eligible for the issue of export
certificates and for which such certificates will be required, must
be kept separate from other refined sugars in the refinery ware-