Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-25
AMERICA AND SPAIN.
provisions of the New Commercial
Treaty Between the Two Countries.
THE TREATY WITH SPAIN


THE TREATY WITH SPAIN.
NEW York, Dec. 10.-A Madrid ca
bic to The Times gives the text of the
new treaty with Spain, negotiated by
Minister Foster. It is as follows:
ARTICLE 1. The United States of
America, in reciprocity for the conces-
s1ons and privileges stipulated by
Spain in the present treaty and as an
equivalent Of the same, agree to admit
INTO ali the ports of entry of the said
States free of import duties, or with
the duties to which they are subjected
IN the accompanying tariff marked
"A" all the articles or merchandise
enumerated in the same. provided
always that said articles or merchan-
disc enumerated in said tariff A shall
be natural products or products of tie
industries and manufactures of the
Spanish isles and provinces Of Cuba
and Porto Rico; and, moreover, pro
vlded always that the said articles or
merchandise be transported directl-
from the said isles to the United States
IN bottoms which shall be the exclusive
property of citizens Of the United
States or of Spanish citizens, and
whose officers shall be respectively
citizens of said United States or of
Spain. If during the existence of this
treaty any reduction is made in the
import duties of the United States up
on any article Or articles among those
enumerated IN the tariff upon which
duties are imposed, the duties of said
tariff "a" shall be proportionately re-
duced upon said articles.
ARTICLE 2. Spain in reciprocity of
the concessions and privileges, stipu-
lated by the United States of America
IN the present treaty, and as an eoui-
valent OF the same. agrees to admit in
all ports of eutry of the Spanish isles
and provinces of Cuba AID Porto Ric >
free OF import duties, or with the duties
imposed in the annexed tariffs ''B"
and &c" respectively, all the articles
and merchandise enumerated in said
tariffs, provided, always, that the ar
ticles or mer chandise enumerated in
said tariffs E'B" and ''C', shall be nat
uraI products or products of the in
dustries. or. manufacturers Of the
United States; and furthermore that
said articles or merchandise shall be
transported directly from the United
States to the said islands IN bottoms
which shall be the exclusive property
Of Spanish citizens or Of citizens OF
the United States, and whose officers
shall be respectively Spanish citizens
or citizens of said United States. If
during the existence of this treaty any
reduction In the third column of the
customs tariff Of Cuba, or of Porto
Rico, or Ia the column In force in
case said third column shall be replac-
ed by another, in regard to any article
or articles of those named in tariffs
''B' and &c" upon which duties are
imposed the duties of said tariffs 'B'
and &c" upon said articles shall be
proportionally reduced.
Tariff ''A"-Articles the product of
the provinces of Cuba and Porto Rico
to be admitted into the United States
on the following conditions: Free
FROM duty: Horses, cocoa, coffee, fish,
fresh fruits, cotton, hemp, fax, hides.
skins undressed, analine and mineral
dyes, palm oil, sugars not above No.
16 Dutch standard in color, Ioaves of
crystallized sirup of the sugar cane,
melada molasses, seeds, woods. cast
iron, eggs, honey, wax, sponges,
bones, guanO, manure, esparto, horse
hair, rushes, oxiers. coins of gold or
silver. Subject to duty: Cigars,
cigarettes, begueros, $125 per pound,
l24 per cent. ad valorem: tobacco
leaves, requiring more than one hun
dred to the pound if having stems, 81
cents per pound, without stems so
cents; other tobacco in leaves having
stems III cents per pound tobacco.
manufactured, of every kind, tobacco
without stems 20 cents per pound; to-
bacco not manufactured Is per cent.
ad vaiorem.
Tariff "B"-Articles the product of
the United States which shall be ad-
mltted into Cuba exempt from duty:
Beer, fresh meats, bacon, fruits, fish,
shell fish, grain, and other cereals, ex-
cepting rice, -four Of cereals other
than rice. lard, swine, beef, cheese,
eggs, and bread, woods of all kinds,
slaves, knees, timber, pipes, boxes of
wood, cattle, sheep and goats, hogs,
stones and earths employed III CON
structlon and IN arts and industries,
clay, tiles, bricks and tiles unglaZed,
hides and undressed skins, minerals
or metals, coins of silver and gold,
useful tools, agricultural ina plements,
agricultural apparatus, industrial and
scientific motors Of all classes and
materials, separate parts of the same,
raw cotton, hemp, fax, jute, and all
other raw vegetable fbers, woods,
hogs hair, raw horse hai1s, asphalt,
refined bitumen, tar, pitch, and rosin,
petroleum raw or crude, mineral and
vegetable Goals, mineral waters, trees,
plants. vine shoots and seeds, natural
and artificial manures, marbles, jas
per, alabaster in blocks and sheets.
roag b Or prepared, other stones and
earths employed in construction, min
erals and metals, mineral waters, ice,
cast iron IN pigs and all forms of
waste steel and iron, cast-iron III
tubes, the same manufactured, MALE
able iron and steel in bars, and all
classes of of wire in copper and iron,
nails screws rlvAtS wr0upht-iron