The Treaty of Whampoa was a commercial treaty between Qing dynasty of China and Kingdom of France, which was signed by Qiying and Théodore de Lagrené on October 24, 1844 aboard the warship L'Archimède. It is considered an unequal treaty by many sources in which China granted the same privileges to as Britain had secured in the Treaty of Nanking. The privileges included the opening of five harbours to French merchants, extraterritorial privileges French citizens in China, a fixed tariff on Sino-French trade and the right of France to station consuls in China.