File 868/1904 Pt 2 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from Customs duties'

Content

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.

Extent and format

1 item (150 folios)

It is part of

File 868/1904 Pt 1-2 'Consular'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/30

Written in

English and French in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/30/2

Former external reference(s)

P 868/1904 Pt 2

History of this record

Date(s)

12 Sep 1903-11 Nov 1910 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

Foreign OfficeAmbassador of the Russian Federation to the United KingdomMinister of Foreign Affairs

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