BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MARITIME CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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• Publication Date: February 26, 1951
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COUNTRY China DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Economic - CTStoms administration
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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
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PUBLISHED 20 Dec 1950
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BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MARITIME CUSTOMS
ADMINISTRATION, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Peiping, 19 December (Hain-hue) -- The complete text of the order L,romul-
gated 14 December 1950 by Premier Chou En-lai and Kung Yuan (.~1.+ l~~ ), Chief
of the Maritime Customs Administration, dealing with the principles oa which
the establishment of the Maritime Customs Administration is based, is as fol-
lows:
In contrast with the administration heretofore operated by reactionaries
subservient to imperialist economic aggression, by which foreign goods were
dumped upon the country and raw materials were exported at low prices, it ie re-
quired to establish, at places where economic conditions create a need for them,
the structure and facilities of a customs administration which shall be con-
ducted in a free and independent spirit.
Any customhouse, barrier, station, agency, or post, which has hitherto
been located at a point not open to foreign trade, or where it is not required
by the needs of Sur economy, shall be abolished in an appropriate manner con-
sistent with the actual conditions at the place in question, whether its func-
tion may have been to prevent smuggling or to assess and collect customs duties.
The pre~~ention of smuggling at such places shall be turned over to the Public
Safety authorities. To this end, the principles for the establishment of the
Maritime Cue toms Administration and the rules for its reorganization are enacted
ss follows:
A. Principles for Establishment
1. Customs facilities shall be Established at the following kinds of
places:
a. Ports which the Central People's government has decided shall be
open to foreign trade.
b. Railroad stations on international frontiers and at points where
through international transportation~linea cross the frontier.
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c. National Boundary points on international land routes, and at
points on rivers forming the national boundary where people and goods are per-
mitted to enter and leave the country.
d. International airports.
e. Post offices w2:ere international mail and parcel post packages are
exchanged.
f. Places where the Central People's government especially permits
goods to be imported and exported.
2. Maritime customhouses (hai-:cuan, iii ~~ ) at scaporta, or custom-
houses (kuan, ~ ) on land frontiers, of three classes, namely, first
class (kuan or hai-kuan), second class (fen-kuan,'u~ ~ ), or third class
(chih-kuan, ~, ~ ), shall be established at various places according to local
conditions as indicated below:
a. First-class customhouses at places where ordinarily large volumes
of goods are imported or exported (including international parcel poet packa.~ea
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atid exports may sot be large, there is considerable political and economic im-
portance attached to the place.
b. Second-class customhouses at places where the volume of goody im-
ported and exported (including parcel poet packages and travelers' baggage) is
comparatively small.
c. Third-class customhouses where there is no continuous import and
export of goods, or where the volume is small or of limited nature.
3. All first-class customhouses or maritime customhouses shall be under
the direct control of the Maritime Customs Administration. The control of
second-class and third-class customhouses shall be determined by the Maritime
Customs Administration.
4. Where no customhouse of any class has been established, the importa-
tion or exportation of goods across the national boundary is not permitted.
Violation of this prohibition shall be considered smuggling and, where de-
tected, the local public safety or military authorities shall detain the smug-
gled goods, the transport facilities, and the persons involved in the smug-
gling, and they shall be dealt with in accordance with the customs laws. In
the interest of minority groups living in border regions, the exchange across
international boundaries of daily necessities on a small scale shall be per=
matted under regula+,ions to be drawn up by the Finance any Economic Committee
of the reg3.ona1 district government concerned, in the light of local condi-
tions, and reported for reference to the Ministry of Trade and raritime Cus-
toms Administration of the Central government.
?,. The establishment, removal, or abolition of a customhouse, of any
:lass, shall be carried out by the Maritime Customs Administration in con,~unc-
tion with the Ministries of Trade, Finance, and Public Safety of the Central
government.
6. In accordance with the Government Administration Council's decision of
27 Jsnuary 1950, the Ministry oY Public Safety shall be responsible for the
suppression of smuggling at points along the coastline or international bound-
aries where no customhouse of any class is established. Prior to turning over
to the Ministry of Public Safety the work of smuggling suppression in any lo-
cality, the existing special arrangements made by the customhouses iuP tue
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suppression of smuggling shall be maintained; but those places shall not be re-
garded as places where international trade is permitted. Customhouse:. facili-
ties which are not to be retained, shall continue in operation. as usual until
formally ordered to close.
B. Designation of Customhouses
Based on the foregoing principles, and in view of existing conditions, it
has been decided to establibh within the whole national territory 26 first- ~'
class customhouses or Maritime Customhouses, nine second-clean customhouses,
and 35 third-class customhouses. The names of these Customhouses and their re-
spective lines of control are as follows:
Hsis-chieh-Pang Chih-kuan ( Y ~~ ~ )
5. Antung Hai-kuan
San-tao-Lang-t' ou Chih-kuan ( . s~ y~..S~ )
6. Dairen Hai-kuan
7. Ying-k'ou Hai-kuan
8. Mukden Kua~~ (to be established after the Northeast Customs Control
names not appearing in V. K. Ting's Atlas]
San-ho-tu'un Chih-kuan ( ~. icy ~# )
Nan-p'ing Chih-kuan (~~j Y? )
Hun-ch'un Chih-kuan
4. Chi-an Kuan
Chang-psi Chih-kuan
Lin-Chiang Chih-kuan
1. Man-thou-li Kuan
Hailer Chih-kuan
2. Sui-fen-ho Kuan
3. T'u-men Kuan
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Harbin Chih-kuan
Ch'i-ch'1-ha-erh Chih-kuan
Tientsin Hai-kuan
Chin-huang-tao Fen-kuan
T'aag-ku Fen-kuan
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10. Peiping Kuan
11. Tsingtao Hai-kuan
Chefoo Fen-kuan
Lien-yun-chiang Chih-kuan
12. Shanghai Hai-kuan
Wu-sung Chih-kuan
Ning-po Chih-kuan
Wen-chou Chih-kuan
13. Foochow Hai-kuan
Han-chiang Chih-kuan
San_tu-an Qhih-kuan
Amoy Hai-kuan
Chin-chiang Chih-kuan
15. Wuhan Kuan
16. Swatow Hai-kuan
17. Canton Hai-kuan
Huang-p'u Chih-kuan
18. Kowloon Hsi-kuan (located at Shen-ch'uan)
Wen-chin-tu Chih-kuan ('~ /~ il~ )
19. Chiang-men Hai-kuan
Kung-pei Fen-kuan
20. Pei-hai Hai-kuan
Tung-hsing Chih-kuan
21. Wuchow Kuan
22. Fort Bayard Hai-kuan
23. Hai-k'ou Hai-kuatt
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Ta-lo Chih-kuan
Meng-lien Chih-kuan ,
Ho-k'ou Chih-kuan
Ma-kuan Chih-kuan
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25. T'eng-ch'ung Kuan
Wan-ting Fen-kuan
Meng-mao Chih-kuan
Che-tao Chih-kuan (:;~. ~ )
Hou-ch' iso Chih-kuan (~jl~ )
Chen-k'ang Chih-kuan
26. Urumchi Kean
Ho-erh-kuo-ssu Fen-kuan
Kuld,ja Chih-kuan
Chuguchak Fen-kuan
Pa??k' o-t' u Chih-kuan (~ ,~, I~ )
Sharasume Fen-kuan
Chi-mu-nai Chih-kuan
K'o-shih Fen-kuan
I-t'eng Chih-kuan ( '(~ ~' )
There will also be two third-class customhouses directly under the Mari-
time Customs Administration:
Ha-mi Chih-kuan
Wu-su Chih-kuan
Chou En-lai
Premier, Government Administration Council
Kung Yuan
Chief, Maritime Customs Administration
14 Aecember 1950
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