The Washburn leader., 1891-02-14
RECIPROCITY.
President Harrison Issues an Official
Proclamation Regarding Rpcip-
rOcal Trade With Brazil.
The Brazilian Government Has
Notified the United States
of Their Tariff.
Grain and Farm Products Will he
Admitted Free-25 Per Cent.
on Manufactures.
To Secure Reciprocal Trade.

To Secure Reciprocal Trade.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The president
late this afternoon issued the following
pr0clamatiOn:
By the president of the United States OF
America: Proclamation.
WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 8, of an
act OF congress approved Oct0bert 1st
1890, entitled: "An act to reduce revenue
and equalize duties on imports, and fol
other purposes" The secretary of state
of the United States of America has com
municated to the government of the United
States of Brazil action of the congress OF
the Unitedl States of America, with 8
view tO secure reciprocal trade in declar.
ing the articles enumerated in said section
8, tn-Wit: sugars, mOlasses, coffee and
hides to be exempt from duty upon their
importation into the United States OF
America; and
WHEREAS, The envoy extraordinary
Washington has communicated to the
secretary of state the fact that in due re.
ciprocity for and the consideration of the
admission into the United States of
America free of all duty of the articles
enumerated IN section 3 of said act, the
government of Brazil has by legal enact
ment authorized the admission from and
ports of entry of Brazil, free Of all duty,
whether national, state or municipal of the
articles or merchandise named in the fol-
lowing schedule, provided that the same
be product and manufacture of the Unit.
ed States of America.
!. Schedule of articles to be admitted
free into Brazil: Wheat; wheat flour; corn
md spoor in
Guiding cOrnmeal and starch; rye, rye
flour, buckwheat. buckwheat flour, and
barley; potatoes, beans and peas; hay and
oats; pork, saIted, including picked pork
and bacon, except hams; fish, salted, dried
or picked; cOtton-seed oil; coal, anthracite
and bituminOus; rOsin, tar, pitch and tur:
pentine; agricultural tools, Implements and
Implements and machinery, including sta
tionary and portable engines and all ma.
chinery for manufacturing and industrial
purposes, except sewing machines; instru-
ments and books for the arts and sciences;
railway construction material and equip.
ment. And the government of Brazil has
by legal enactment, further authorized the
entry of Brazil, with q reduction of Is per
centum of the duty designated on the re-
spective articles in the tariff now in force,
or which may hereafter be adopted in the
United States of Brazil, whether national
state or municipal. on articles named in
the following schedule, provided the same
be product or manufacture of the United
States of America:
A schedule of the articles to be admitted
into Brazil with reduction of the duty OF
25 per centum: Lard and substitutes
therefor; bacon, hams, butter and cheese:
canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits
and vegetables; manufactures of cotton
including cotton clothing; manufactures
of iron and steel. single or mixed, not in
leather and manufactures thereof, except
boots and shoes; lumber, timber and man.
ufactures of wood, including c0Operage,
furniture of all kinds, wagons, carts and
carriages; manufactures of rubber. And
that the government of Brazil has further
provided that the laws and regulations
adopted to protect its revenue and prevent
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 articles impOr ted. And
whereas. the secretary of state has given
assurance to the envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary OF Brazil at Wash.
ingt0n that this action OF the government
of Brazil in granting exemption of duties
to products and manufactures of the
United States of America is accepted as
due reciprocity for the action of congress,
as set forth in section 8 of said act.
Now, therefore, be it known that l, Ben.
jamin Harrison, president of the United
States of America, have caused the above
stated notifications of the tariff law of
Brazil to be made public for the infOrma-
tion of the United States of America.
In testimony whereof | have hereunt0
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 9Th
day of February, one Thousand eight
hundred and ninety-one, and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of America,
one hundred and fifteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
JAMES G. BLAINE, President.
Secretary of State.