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File 868/1904 Pt 2 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from Customs duties' [19r] (42/305)
The record is made up of 1 item (150 folios). It was created in 12 Sep 1903-11 Nov 1910. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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4030/10.
FOBUIOfJ 0PFICE.
February /tf . 1910
Slr:-
I a-ii cilrocted by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknow
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th. December
last (38835) respecting the grant, on a basis of reci
procity, of Customs facilities to Consular officers of
the United States, Mexico ana Cuba, resident in the
#** ' "‘•'•v.
Brititih Crown Colonies mo Protectorates.
v^itn respect to the enquiry in the last paragraph
of your letter, I am to observe that the Customs exemp
tions accorded to His Majesty's Consular officers in
the foreign countries mentioned may be divided general
ly into two classes, viis:-
(1) on the baggage end personal effects of the
Consul when he arrives in the Country;.
on offiel^x stores etc., sent by His Mujes-
ty f s Government for the use of the Consulate.
As regards the grant of reciprocal treatment,
provision
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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Part 2 concerns the exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from customs duties. It contains:
- customs concessions to German Consular Officers;
- treatment for Customs purposes of articles imported into India for the official use of the German Consulates;
- claims of Russian Consul General at Bombay to exemption from customs duties in respect of personal and household effects;
- note by the Netherlands Minister requesting exemption from customs duties for Dutch Consular Officers in British India;
- privileges for Dutch Consuls 'de carrière';
- exemptions of Netherlands Consular Officers from payment of Customs duty on articles imported for their use;
- customs privileges for Consular representatives of the United States (US), Mexico and Cuba;
- customs facilities granted to Consuls of the Argentine Republic.
The principal correspondents are the Imperial German Ambassador in London; the German Foreign Office; the Russian Ambassador in London; the Dutch Minister; the Foreign Department of the Government of India; the Secretary of State for India; the Foreign Office; and the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. . The letters from the Netherland Minister is in French.
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- File 868/1904 Pt 2 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from Customs duties'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:61v, 64r:68v, 71r:78v, 79v:85v, 88r:94v, 97r:120v, 122r:123v, 126r:138v, 143r:150v
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