Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Imperial Maritime Customs Service
Imperial Maritime Customs Service
Traditional Chinese	大清皇家海關總稅務司
Simplified Chinese	大清皇家海关总税务司
Literal meaning	Great Qing Imperial Customs Taxation Service
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dà Qīng huángjiā hǎiguān zǒngshuìwùsī

Chinese Maritime Customs Service
	Ensign of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1931–1950
Agency overview
Formed	1854
Dissolved	1991
Superseding agency	Directorate General of Customs in Taiwan (ROC); General Administration of Customs in Mainland China (PRC);
Type	National
Jurisdiction	Qing dynasty; China
Headquarters	Beijing/Beiping (1854–1929); Shanghai (1929–1941); Chongqing (1941–1949); Taipei (1949–1950)
Minister responsible	H. H. Kung (1933–1944);
Agency executives	Horatio Nelson Lay, Inspector-General (1854–1863); Sir Robert Hart, Inspector-General (1863–1911); Sir Francis Aglen, Inspector-General (1911–1927); Arthur Henry Francis Edwardes, Officiating Inspector-General (1927–1929); Sir Frederick Maze, Inspector-General (1929–1943); Lester Knox Little, Inspector-General (1943–1950);
Parent agency	Ministry of Finance

The Chinese Maritime Customs Service was a Chinese governmental tax collection agency and information service from its founding in 1854 until it split in 1949 into services operating in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and in the People's Republic of China. From its foundation in 1854 until the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911, the agency was known as the Imperial Maritime Customs Service.

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