Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
RECIPROCITY WITH BRAZIL.

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| Treaty of Reciprocity Between the United
| States of America and the United States OF
| Brazii-The Free and Reduced Duty
Schedules.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 6--President Har-
| rison late yesterday afternoon issued
| his formal proclamation announcing
| the reciprocity agreement with Brazil
under tho new Tariff law.
| The President in his proclamation
says:
| WHEREAS Pursuant to Section of The act
| of Congress approved October 1, 1890, en-
| titled An Act to Reduce the Revenue and
EqualiZe Duties Imports, and for Otlee
Purposes the Secretary of State of the
| United States of America communicated to
| the Government of the United States of Bra
zil the action OF the Congress of the United
| States of America with view to secure
| reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles
enumerated III said Section 3, owit: Sugar,
molasses, coffee and hides, to be exempt
! from duty upon their Importation into the
| United States of America: And.
| WHEREAS, The Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipctentiary of Brazil at Wash
| ington has communicated to the Secretary
of State the fact that in due reciprocity for
and consideration of the admission into the
United States of America free of all duty of
the articles enumerated in Section of said
act, the Government of Brazil has, by legal
enactment, authorized the admission, from
and after April, 1891, into all the established
ports of entry of Brazil, free of duty, whether
national, state, or municipal, of the articles
or merchandise named in the following
schedule, provided that the same be the
product and manufacture of the United
States of America:
SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED
FREE INTO BRAZIL.
Wheat, wheat flour.
Corn or maize. and the manufactures there.
of, including corn meal and starch.
Rye, rye flour.
Buckwheat, bucEwheat flour and barley.
Potatoes.
Beans and peas.
Hay and oats.
Pork, sailed, including picked pork and
bacon, except hams.
Fish, sailed, dried or picked.
Cotton seed Oil.
Coal, anthracite and bituminous.
Rosin, tar, pitch and turpentine.
Agricultural tools. implements and ma
chinery, mining and mechanical tools i'm
PIGMENTS and machinery, including station
airy and portable engines, and all machinery
for manufacturing and industrial purposes,
except sewing machines.
instruments and books for the arts and
sciences
Railway construction material and equip
mentS.
And that the Government OF Brazil has, by
legal enactment, further authorized the ad-
mission into all the established ports OF en-
try of Brazil, with reduction of twenty five
per centum of the duty designated on the
respective article i'll the tariff now in force
or which may hereafter be adopted in the
House of Brazil, whether national, state or
municipal, of the articles or merchandise
named in the following schedule, provide
that the same be the product or nlanufact-
ure of the United States of America:
SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED INTO
BRAZIL WITH REDUCTION OF 70
PER CENTUM.
Lard and substitutes therefor.
Bacon. hams.
Butter and cheese
Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits
md vegetables.
Manufactures of cotton, including cotton
clothing.
Manufacturers of iron and steel, single or
mi ed. not included in the foregoing free
schedule.
Leather and the manufactures thereof ex-
cept boots ana shoes.
Lumber, timber and the manufactures of
wood, including cooperage, furniture of all
kinds, wagons, carts and carriages.
Manufactures OF rubber.
And that the Government of Brazil has
further provided that the laws and regula-
tiOns adopted to protect its revenue and
prevent fraud in the declarations and proof
that the articles named in the foregoing
schedules the product or manufacture of
the United states of America, shall place no
undue restrictions on the importer nor i'm
pose any additional charges or fees therefor
on the articles imported.
Now, therefore, be it known that T. Benia-
min Harrison, President of the United States
of America, have caused the above modifi-
cations of the Tariff law of Brazil to be made
public for the benefit of the citizens of the
United States OF America.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President, James G. Blaine, Secretary
Of State.
The correspondence which led up to
this reciprocal agreement opened with
a communication from Secretary
Blaine, addressed to Mr.. Mendonca,
the Brazilian Minister. on the Sd Of
Nove1n Der last, in which Mr. Blaine
suggested the eSta blishment Of COM
mercial relations under the reciprocal
provisions of the new Tariff law. on q
permanent basis of reciprocity Drofita-
bic alike to both Brazil and the United
States, and assuring the Brazilian
Government that no export tax would
be imposed by the United States on
goods manufactured in the United
States, that might be admitted into
Brazil duty-free.
TO this Minister Mcndonca replied
on January 81. communicating the fact
that his government had authorized the
admission to Brazilian ports of the vari-
Gus articles mentioned in the Presi-
dents proclamation, and upon the terms
specified in that document, and also as
surfing the Secretary of State that Bra
I'll would not increase export tax on any
of the articles enumerated if exported
to the United States.
The Reciprocity Treaty in Favor at New
Orleans.
New ORLEANS, La, Feb. 6.-Opin;on
in New Orleans is almost university
favorable to the Brazilian reciprocity |
treaty, as expressed by merchants and
representative men.
Mr.. C. II. Allen, a leading member of |
the Board of Trade, said the idea was |
an excellent one. If carried into prac- |
teal effect, reciprocity will have a ten
dency to largely increase our trade. II
Brazil consents to admit all the prod |
ucfs which she needs free of dutv the |