Imperial Ordinance No. 208, Which Became Applicable to Canada, July 20, 1935
ARTICLE I An import duty of 50 per cent. ad valorem, in addition to the import duties enumerated in the Import Tariff annexed to the Customs Tariff Law, shall, in accordance with the provisions of Article I of Law No. 45, 1934, and for the duration of one year from the date of coming into force of the present Ordinance, be imposed on articles produced or manufactured in countries with which the trade balance of Japan in 1934 was in excess in imports and which, at the time of coming into force of the present Ordinance, employ, in respect of goods produced or manufactured in Japan, arbitrary standards of value for the assessments of import duties and impose on such goods special taxes or duties in addition to ordinary imports duties. The same shall apply to articles manufactured at bonded factories with the aforesaid articles as material.
The articles mentioned in the preceding Paragraph are restricted to those of the articles enumerated in the Import Tariff annexed to the Customs Tariff Law, which are set forth in the List appended to the present Ordinance.
The countries referred to in the first Paragraph hereof shall be proclaimed by the competent Minister of State.
ARTICLE II Any person who imports any of those of the articles enumerated in the Import Tariff annexed to the Customs Tariff Law, which are set forth in the List appended to the present Ordinance, shall attach a Certificate of Origin to the Import Declaration; except when such article is mail matter or when the cost price of the same does not exceed ¥100.
The Certificate of Origin above referred to shall designate the marks, numbers, names, number and quantity of the article to be imported and also the locality where it was produced or manufactured, and shall be attested by the Imperial Consulate or, if it does not exist, by the Customs House, other Governmental or public office or the Chamber of Commerce and Industry existing in the place where the said article was produced, manufactured, purchased or shipped; unless otherwise provided by treaty, in which case such treaty provisions shall prevail.
ARTICLE III The term "competent Minister of State", occurring in the present Ordinance, applies, in Chosen, to the Governor-General of Chosen, and, in Taiwan, to the Governor-General of Taiwan.
ANNEX
| Import Tariff No. | Articles |
|---|---|
| 16 | Wheat. |
| 22 | Flours, meals or groats of grains, and starches : |
|  1. Wheat flour. | |
|  6. Wheat starch (under "Other"). | |
| 361 | Pulp for paper making. |
| 367 | Packing paper and match paper, excluding tissue paper. |
| 605 | Parts of machinery, not otherwise provided for : |
|  11. Endless felts for paper making. | |
| 612 | Wood : |
|  1. Cut, sawn or split, simply. | |
|   F-1. Pine, fir, cedar, and other conifers. | |
|   F-2. Chamaecyparis (white cedar, yellow cedar, etc.). | |
|   F-3. Thuja (red cedar, etc.) and Tsuga (hemlock, etc). | |
|   F-4. Abies (todomatsu, etc.), Picea (ezo-matsu, spruce, etc.), Pines (benimatsu, etc.), and Larix (karamatsu, etc.). | |
|   F-5. Other (douglas fir, etc.) : | |
|   a. Not exceeding 60 millimetres in thickness. | |
|   b. Not exceeding 200 millimetres in thickness. | |
|   c. Exceeding 200 millimetres in thickness. | |
|   d-1. Logs and cants : | |
|    d-1. Exceeding 10 metres in length, not exceeding 30 centimetres in diameter at top end. | |
|    d-3. Other. | |
|  2. Other : | |
|   E. Pine, fir, cedar, and other conifers (under "Other"), excluding Koyosan (Cunninghamia, sinensis). | |
| 647 | Articles, not otherwise provided for : |
|  1. Gluten (under "Raw"). |