156 (No. 98 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS subject to an import duty equivalent to the Sudan royalty on exported produce, this being not less than the ad valorem import duty .

At Gambela, the collection of duties is entrusted to the Sudan Government, and two British representatives are stationed there in addition to a British Consul. The Sudan Government has constructed warehouses for the storage of goods awaiting shipment by steamer to Khartum . Goods entering Abyssinia from the Sudan, in transit, pay no duty, as the duty is collected at Port Sudan on behalf of theAbyssinian Government. Euro pean goods re-exported within six months from the Sudan to Abyssinia receive a rebate of 7 per cent. on the Sudan duties, but have to pay 8 per cent. at Gambela . Sudan products pay 6 per cent., 5 per cent. for Abyssinian duty, and 1 per cent. as an exportduty, and vice versa for Abyssinian products . If the latter pass in transit to Port Sudan en route to Europe 5 per cent. is refunded. The 10 per cent. export duty on all Abyssinian products passing out of Abyssinia is col lected before the goods reach Gambela .

( e) Commercial Treaties now in Force The foreign commerce of theAnglo -Egyptian Sudan is governedby the treaties in force in Egypt, the only treaty peculiar to the Sudan being the Customs Con vention with the Italian colony of Eritrea, which was ratified at Cairo on January 2, 1902. This Convention fixes the import duty on natural produce imported into either of these two countries from the other at 5 per cent., and the export duty at 1 per cent . It further prohibits traffic in arms and ammunition between the two countries and makes the traffic in liquors dependent on permission. By agreement with the Governments of Uganda, Belgian Congo, and French Congo, the Convention applies also to those countries .