Those Five-Countries Treaty did not grant Japan tariff autonomy but admitted consular jurisdiction of the other countries, and approved the one-sided most favored nation clause for the benefit of the other countries (which is said to have been requested by the bakufu, which had no intention to admit the Japanere general public to go abroad).
五カ国条約は関税自主権が無く、領事裁判権を認めたほか、片務的最恵国待遇条款を承認する（一説には一般の日本人の海外渡航を認める気がなかった幕府側からの要請とする説もある）内容であった。