Word: likin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Powers represented at the Customs Conference signified "on principle" their willingness to grant China customs autonomy in return for the abolition of "likin...
Surprise was expressed by the delegates when reports were read in which it appeared that the Tuchuns (War Lords) in the interior of China have been levying "special taxes" of their own which are double or triple the "likin." The fact that the Tuchuns are strong and do as they like, despite the feeble reproofs of the Peking Government, is of course the great argument advanced by Britain in contending that tariff autonomy cannot be proximately granted to China...
...China to be allowed to write her own tariff schedules after Jan. 1, 1929, and to agree in return to abolish the internal "likin" (transit duties) and other trade taxes; this arrangement to be embodied in a new treaty, supplanting the present customs treaties between China and the Powers; the actual collection of the customs money to remain in the hands of the Powers as at present...
...return China offers to abolish "likin...
...increase it. They propose an increase of 2%% with the restoration of "customs autonomy"-the withdrawal of foreign supervision over tariff collection. Failing the latter, they are expected to press for an increase of 7½% bringing the maximum duties up to 12½% in order that the likin or local provincial taxes may be abolished...