Of Great Britain:—
- Sir Harry S. Parkes, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan;
Of France:—
- Monsieur Leon Roches, Commander of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honor, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of the French in Japan;
And of Holland:—
- Monsieur Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Political Agent and Consul General of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands:—
The following Convention comprising Twelve Articles.
Article I
The contracting parties declare in the names of their respective Governments that they accept, and they hereby do formally accept as binding on the citizens of their respective countries, and on the subjects of their respective Sovereigns the Tariff hereby established and annexed to the present convention.
This Tariff is substituted not only for the original Tariff attached to the Treaties concluded with the abovenamed four Powers but also for the special Conventions and arrangements relative to the same Tariff, which have been entered into at different dates up to this time between the Governments of the United States, Great Britain and France on one side, and the Japanese Government on the other.
The new Tariff shall come into effect in the port of Kanagawa (Yokohama) on the first day of July next and in the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate on the first day of the following month.
Article II
The Tariff, attached to this convention being incorporated from the date of its signature in the Treaties concluded between Japan and the abovenamed four powers; is subject to revision on the first day of July 1872.
Two years, however, after the signing of the present convention, any of the contracting parties, on giving six months' notice to the others, may claim a re-adjustment of the duties on Tea and Silk on the basis of 5 per cent on the average value of those articles during the three years last preceding. On the demand also of any of the contracting parties, the duty on timber may be changed from an ad valorem to a specific rate six months after the signature of this convention.
