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The Chinese Legation to the Department of State29

Tentative and without commitment

Article XIV. Rights of Residence and Trade

Nationals of the United States of America shall enjoy in China the right, subject to Chinese laws and regulations, to travel, reside, establish firms, open branches, acquire or lease properties, work and engage in industries or commerce, in all the localities where the nationals of any other country shall be permitted to do so and in the same manner and under the same conditions as the nationals of any other country, provided that where any rights in these matters are granted to the nationals of any other country only upon the fulfilment of certain conditions, such conditions must also be fulfilled before nationals of the United States of America are allowed to enjoy the same rights. It is understood that the existing rights of nationals of the United States of America in respect of the above matters will remain unimpaired.

  1. Handed to Mr. Joseph E. Jacobs of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs by the Third Secretary of the Chinese Legation on April 29, 1931.