Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-01
For Reciprocal Trade with
Cuba and Porto Rico.
Proclamation by the President
Announcing the Terms.
Diplomatic Correspondence Pertain
ing Thereto Also Given.
Sugar, Coffee and Hides to Be Admitted
Free by the United States in Ex-
change for Like Favers for
American Products.
associated Press Dispatches.

WASHINGTON. July 3I.-The Spanish
reciprocity treaty, and the diplomatic
correspondence pertaining thereto, was
made public today, the president issu-
ing proclamation announcing the full
text of the treaty. It was made pursu-
ant to the last tariff act, with the view
of securing reciprocal trade by reason of
exemption from duty Of sugar, molasses,
coffee and hides, upon their importa-
tion into the United States.
THE TRANsIToRY SCHEDULE.
Under the terms OF the treaty, tie
following articles manufactured in the
United States, and included in what is
what is termed transitory schedule,
will be admitted into Cuba and Porto
Rico, free after September 1st. next
Meats, salt and canned, jerked beet
excepted; lard, tallow, fish, dried and
smoked fish, canned oysters and salmon
oats, barley rye, buckwheat and -four of
these grains; starch, maizena, and other
alimentary products of corn, excepting
cornmeal; cotton seed oil and meal
cake Of said seed for cattle; hay, straw
and bran; fresh, dried and preserved
fruits, except raisins; vegetables; rosin
turpentine; wood of all kinds; wagons;
sewing machines raw petroleum. coal,
and ice.
The following articles will be admitted
on the payment of the duties stated:
Corn, 25c. per 100 Kilograms; cornmeal,
25c.; wheat, from January 1, 1892, 30c.;
wheat flour from the same time. 81.
Butter and cheese, refined petroleum
and boots and shoes, will be admitted at
reduction of 25 per cent. from and
after July 1, 1892.
THE DEFINITE ARRANGEMENT.
As definite arrangement the follow
ing articles will be admitted free Mar
BILE, jasper, alabaster and other stones,
including cement, mineral waters, ice,
coal, pitch, tar, resin, turpentine, as
phalt, raw petroleum, bricks and tiles,
gold and silver coin, pig iron, iron pipes,
beams, rafters, wrought iron, steel wire
nails. screws. nuts and pipes, raw cotton,
cotton-seed Oil and meal cake, tallow and
other animal greases, books and panph-'
let's, woods of all kinds manures agricul-
tural implements and machinery; ma
terials and articles for public works,
such as railroads, tramways and roads;
cepted; butter, lard, cheese; fish OF all
kinds and canned oysters and salmon;
oats, barley, rye, buckwheat and flour
OF these grains starch maizena, and ali
mentary products OF corn, except corn
meal fruits, except raisins; vegetables,
hay, straw and bran; trees, plants,
shrubs and garden seeds; tan bark.
The following will be admitted on the
payment OF the duties stated: Corn or
maize, 25 cents per 100 Kilograms corn
meal, 25 cents wheat, 80 cents; wheat
-four, 81.
Carriages, cars and other vehicles for
railroads, etc., where authorization for
free admission is not obtained, one per
cent. ad valorem.
DUTY REDUCED ONE-HALF.
The following are admitted at re-
duction OF fifty per cent. Marble, ala
baster OF all kinds, Jasper, glass and
crystal ware, plate and window glass,
and the same quicksilvered, ETC.. clay
in tiles, covered tiles, roof tiles, glazed
tiles and pipes, stoneware, fine earthen
ware and porcelain, iron and steel axles,
tires, springs and wheels for carriages,
rivets and washers, wrought iron and
steel in fine manufactures, or polished
with coating of porcelain or part of other
metal; needles, pins, knives, razors,
scissors; tin plate in sheets or manu-
factured; all other common metals and
alloys of the same; furniture of all
kinds of wood or metal; brushes, veget-
able hair, broom corn, willow, straw
and other similar articles; pastes for
soup. rice -four, bread and crackers and
alimentarv farinas not comprised in
f1,Ao ~
meats mustard, sauces, pickles, Jams
manufactures thereof; rice, hulled or
enhulled.
25 PER CENT. REDUCTION.
The following are admitted at re-
duction OF 25 per cent. duty: Petroleum,
refined, and benzine; manufactured cot
ton, spun or twisted, and cotton goods
of all kinds, WOW IN or knitted, and the
same mixed with other vegetable OF
animal fibres, in which cotton is an
equal or greater component part, and
clothing exclusively Of cotton; rope,
cordage and twine of all kinds shoe
blacking and varnishes; soap, per.
fumery. medicine and drugs; stearine
and tallow manufactured in candles
paper for printing and for decorating
rooms, of wood or straw, for wrapping
or packing; bags and boxes OF the same,
sand paper and pasteboard; leather and
skins, dressed, vanished or japanned
OF all kinds, including sole leather OF
betting; boots and shoes; trunks, val
ises and other similar articles in whole
or part Of leather; harness and saddlery
watches and clocks; carriages.
1t is understood that -four, which on
its expectation from the United States
has been favored with drawbacks, shall
not share in the foregoing reduction of
duty.
Provisional arrangement as set forth
in the transitory schedule shall come tc
an end July /, 1892, and be substituted
by the defnitive arrangement outlined
above.
PRELIMINARY CORRESPONDENCE.
The correspondence preceding the
PRONUNCIATION Of the treaty was begun
by Secretary Blaine, who on January