Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — RECIPROCITY PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE]

RECIPROCITY PROCLAMATION.

Th* President Isaacs Bl* Proelaaaatle* Bagardtag Brasil. President Harrisen on the 6th issued tha formal proclamation announcing the reci procity agreement with Brazil under the new tariff law. The President in his new proclamation, says: % “ Whereas. Pursuant to Section 3 of the Act of Congress approved October 1,1860 entitled ‘An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports and for other purposes,’the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of the United States of Brazil the action of the Congress of the United States of America with a., view to secure reciprocal trade in declaring the articles enumerated in said Section 3‘ to-wit: Sugars, molasses, cotiee and hides to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America;, and, Whereas, the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that in due reciprocity for and in consideration of th* admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in Section 3 of said set, the Government of Brazil has, by legal enactment authorized the admission, from and after April 1,1891, into all the established ports of entry of Brazil free of all duty whether national, state ar municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that th* same be the product and manufactu e the United S.ates of America. “1. Scheduled articles to be admitted free into Brazil; Wheat, wheat flour, corn or maize, and the manufactures thereof* including corn meal and starch; rye, rye flour; buckwheat, buckwheat flour and barley; potatoes, beans and peas; hay and oats; pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon,except bams; fish, salted, dried or pickled; cotton-seed oil; coal, anthracite and bituminous; resin, tar, pitch and turpentine; agricultural tools, implements and machinery, including stationary and portable engines, and all machinery for manufacturing and industrial purposes, except sewing machines; instruments and books for the arts and sciences; railway coustructiou material and equipments. “And the government of Brazil has, by legal enactment,further authorized the ad mission'intoall the established ports of entry, of Brazil, with a reduction of 25 per centum of the duty designated on the respective article in the tariff now in force,or which may hereafter be adopted in the United States of Brazil, whether national, State or municipal, of the articles of merchandise named in the following schedule* provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States of America. - “2. Schedule of articles to be admitted into Brazil with a reduction of duty of 25 perceutum: Lard and substitutes therefor, bacon, hams, butter and cheese, preserved and canned meats, fish, fruit and egetables; manufactures of dotton, Including cotton clothing; manufacture* of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing free schedules; leather and the manufactures thereof, except boots and shoes, lumber, timber and the manufactures of wood, including cooper age, furniture of all kinds, wagons, carta and carriages; manufactures of rubber. “And that the government of Brazil has further provided that the laws and regjilations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedule are the product or manufacture of the United States of America, shall place no undue restrictions on the importer, nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the article imported; and “Whereas, the Secretary of State has by my direction given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister tiary of Brazil at Washington, that thi s action of the GOYerft.S9At.Qf Brazil. grantiug exemption ol duties tothe pro ducts and manufactures of the United States of America is accepted as due reciprocity for the action of Congress asset forth in Section 3 of us said act; “Now, therefore, be it known that I Benjamin Harrison, President of the _United States of America, have caused the above stated modifications ol the tariff law f Brazil to be made public for the information of the cit zens of the United States of America. ‘•ln testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States te be affixed. “Done at the City of Washington this sth day of February, 1811. and of the inde- . endeuce of the United bia es of America, the one hundred and fifteenth. “Benjamin Habrison. “By the President: “James G. H aine. Secr«*tsrv of State.”