893.512/690: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Mayer)
Washington, October 11,
1927—1 p.m.
358. Your 914, October 7, 9 p.m. Your telegram to Canton approved.
Is the two and one-half percent surtax referred to the so-called consumption and production tax imposed October 11, 1926, mentioned in Canton’s despatch to the Legation of October 8, 1926,65 and when was it abolished?
Is Department correct in understanding that new tax is ten percent of two and one-half percent, namely, one-fourth of one percent?
Kellogg