Tenterden to To J. H. Wodehouse , Her Britannic Majesty’s Commissioner, July 10, 1851
Anglo-Hawaiian treaty.
article iii.
The two contracting parties hereby agree that any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, in matters of commerce or navigation, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other state, shall be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other contracting party; gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other state shall have been gratuitous, or in return for a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional.
article iv
No other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Hawaiian Islands, and no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the imporation into the Hawaiian Islands of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty’s dominions, than are or shall be payable on the like article, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed, in the territories of either of the contracting parties, on the exportation of any article to the territories of the other, than such as are or may be payable on the exportation of the like article to any foreign country. No prohibition shall be imposed upon the importation of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of either of the two contracting parties, into the territories of the other, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other country. Nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon the exportation of any article from the territories of either of the two contracting parties to the territories of the other, which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like article to the territories of all other nations.
article v.
No other or higher duties or charges on account of tonnage, light or harbor dues, pilotage, quarantine, salvage in case of damage or shipwreck, or any other local charges, shall be imposed in any of the ports of the Hawaiian Islands on British vessels than those payable in the same ports by Hawaiian vessels; nor in the ports of Her Britannic Majesty’s territories on Hawiian vessels than shall be payable in the same ports on British vessels.
article vi.
The same duties shall be paid on the importation of any article which is or may be legally importable into the Hawaiian Islands, whether such importation shall be in Hawaiian or British vessels; and the same duties shall be paid on the importation of any article which is or may be legally importable into the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, whether such importation shall be in British or Hawaiian vessels.
The same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any article which is or may be legally exportable from the Hawaiian Islands, whether such exportation shall be in Hawaiian or British vessels; and the same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any article which is or may be legally exportable from her Britannic Majesty’s dominions, whether such shall be in British or in Hawaiian vessels.
article xvii.
In order that the two contracting parties may have the opportunity of hereafter treating and agreeing upon such other arrangements as may tend still further to the improvement of their mutual intercourse, and to the advancement of the interest of their respective subjects, it is agreed that at any time after the expiration of seven years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, either of the contracting parties shall have the right of giving to the other party notice of its intention to terminate Articles IV, V, and VI of the present treaty; and that at the expiration of twelve months after such notice shall have been received by either party from the other, the said articles and all the stipulations contained therein shall cease to be binding on the two contracting parties.
Carter’s declaration to the Anglo-Hawaiian treaty of July, 1851.
Certain relations of proximity having led to regulations for the importation into the ports of the United States of America of certain articles, the growth, produce, and manufacture of the Hawaiian Islands, and into the ports of the Hawaiian Islands, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States of America, by special stipulations of a treaty now in force, and which may be renewed, said stipulations being in no manner connected with the existing regulations of customs and duties in general, the two high contracting parties hereto being desirous of removing from their commercial relations all ambiguity on subjects of discussion, have agreed that the fourth Article of the anglo-Hawaiian treaty of 1851, of which this article shall form a part, shall not be held applicable to the exceptions in the general tariff of customs and duties resulting therefrom or from any conventions or treaty of reciprocity between the Hawaiian Islands and any other neighboring country in or bordering upon the Pacific Ocean. It is further agreed, that during the existence of any such convention or treaty of reciprocity the customs and duties levied in the ports of the Hawaiian Islands upon the following goods, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty’s dominions, shall not exceed ten per cent. ad valorem viz.: Plain cottons, printed cottons, hardware, iron and steel manufactures, saddlery, machinery, woolen goods (other than ready-made clothing); and further that all other articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of Her Britannic Majesty’s dominions, and all articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Hawaiian Islands, which can be legally imported into the ports of the respective countries, shall be entitled in said ports to any exemptions, except as provided in such treaties, as accorded in any way to like articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other nation.
The present additional article shall take effect as soon as it shall have been ratified by Her Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands and said ratifications shall have been exchanged, and shall be considered as a part of said Anglo-Hawaiian treaty of July, 1851, having the same force and effect as if it had been inserted when that treaty was made.
Ratifications of this article shall be exchanged within six months of this date, or as soon as possible, in the city of London.