Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-06
THE FIRST RECIPROCITY TREATY.
The Prssitient's Proclamation Of the Agrc<
ment With Brazil.

!
The Prssidsat's Proclamation Of the Agree
/ ment With Brazil.
| SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATIONS FoR CLOSER CONNER
| cIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO coUSTRIEs
/ SCHEDULES OF THE ARTICLES AFFECTED
/ THE CoREEsPoSDKNoE WITH SECRETARY gLAINE.
| The President last evening issued a procla-
nation TO the effect that in consideration of
certain agreements between the representatives
Of this country and the republic Of Brazil he has
caused TO be made public some importation mod
ifcations in the tariff law Of Brazil, which will be
for the benefit Of American exporters. This ia
the expected reciprocity announcement set
/ ting forth the elimination Of the negotiations
that have been in progress between Dir. Blaine
and the Brazilian minister almost ever since
the late tariff law was enacted
/ The proclamation sets forth, FIRST that the
Secretary of State Of the United States had,
/ pursuant to section of the Mckinley act, COM
/ inundated to the government of Brazil the ac-
/ ton Of Congress with view to securing recip-
| rocal trade between the two countries in deciar-
| ing the articles enumerated in that section =
| sugars, molasses, coffee and hides-to be ex-
| empt from duty on their importation INTO the
United States. The second clause shows how
the minister from Brazil thereupon commune
! Gated to the Secretary Of State the fact that in
due reciprocity for and consideration Of the
admission of those articles free into the United
States the government Of Brazil had, by legal
| enactment, authorized the free admission into
Brazil OF a certain schedule of articles SGT forth
in the proclamation, provided that they are the
product and manufacture of the United States
| THE TWO SCHEDULES.
| This schedule is divided into two sections,
the first Of which included the articles that are
to be granted free admission, and the second
those that are TO 60 into the ports of Brazil
| with a reduction Of rs per cent in their duties.
| The schedules follows: Schedule i
| Wheat; wheat -four: corn OF maize and the
! manufactures thereof, including eornmeal and
| starch; rye, rye Hour, buckwheat, buckwheat
| Hour and barley; potatoes. beans and peas hay
and oats; pork, salted, incluiing picked pork
and bacon, except hams; fish, salted, dried or
picked; cotton seed oil; coal, anthracite and
bituminous; rosin, tar, pitch and turpentine;
| agricultural tools. implements and machinery;
mining and mechanical tools. implements and
| machinery, including stationary and portable
engines and all machinery for manufacturing
| and industrial purposes, except sewing ma
| chimes; instruments and books for the arts and
sciences: railway construction material and
| equipment.
2-Schedule of articles to be admitted into
Brazil with a reduction Of duty of 25 per
| centum.-Lard and substitutes therefor; bacon
| hams; butter and cheese; canned and
preserved meats, fish, fruits and vege-
| tables: manufactures Of cotton, including
| cotton cloth; manufactures Of iron and
steel, single or mixed, not included in the
/ foregoing free schedule; leather and man
| ufactures thereof, except boots and shoes; lum-
| Der, timber and the manufactures of wood,
| including coOperage, furniture Of all kinds.
wagons, carts and carriages; manufactures of
/ rubber.
| Another clause of the proclamation states
| that the government OF Brazil has provided
/ that the laws and regulations adopted to pro-
| tect Its revenue and prevent fraud in the
| declarations and pr oof that the articles named
in the foregoing schedules are the product or
| manufacture Of the United States of America,
| shall place no undue restrictions on the i'm
| porter nor impose any additional charges or
fees therefor on the articles imported.
| The terms of the agreements reached be-
| tween the two countries are such that the re-
ciprocal arrangement is to go into effect on the
LIST Of next April.
THE CORRESPONDENCE.
Accompanying the proclamation are three
| letters which passed between Mr.. Blaine and
Senior Mendonca in relation to the new arrange
ment. The first is from Mr.. Blaine to the
envoy, who was here them November g. on a
special mission. He recites the provisions of
the tariff act in section three, and then goes ON
to say:
The government of the United States of
America being DESTROYS of maintaining with
the United States Of Brazil such trade relations
as shall be reciprocally equal, / should be
glad to receive from you an assurance that the
government Of Brazil will meet the government
of the United States in aspirit of sincere friend
| ship, and that 1t may prove to be the happy
| fortune Of you, Mr.. Minister, and myself to be
| instrumental in establishing commercial rela-
nent basis Of reciprocity, profitable alike to
both.
| To this end should be glad if you could ad-
wise me of the changes which Brazil would be
willing TO make in her system of tariff duties
| in response to the changes proposed in the
| tariff of the United States which are favorable
| to your country.
In the happy event of an agreement between
| the two governments the same can be notified
| to each other and to the world by an official
announcement simultaneously issued by the
executive departments of the United States of
America and the United States of Brazil and
such An agreement can remain in force 10 long
| as neither government shall definitely inform
the other Of Its intention and decision TO con-
sder II at an end.
MINISTER MESDoScA's COOPERATION.
Under date Of January 81 Mr.. Mendonca.
then the fully accredited minister to this coun-
try from Brazil, wrote to Mr.. Blaine. announc-
| ing the passage Of the new laws by Brazil and
| concluding as follows:
| Of my government will satisfy the President of
the United States of America that the United
| States of Brazil have met the liberal legislation
OF the Congress Of the United States in a spirit
! Of sincere friendship and reciprocity. and, in
| that happy event, shall hold myself ready to
| agree with you upon u time when an official an
/ nouncement of this legislation NAV be stimuli
| taneously issued by the executive departments
/ of the two governments with the understand
| ing that the commercial arrangement thus put
/ in operation shall remain in force so long as
| neither government shall definitely, at least
three months in advance, inform the other of
i its intention and decision to consider it at an
end at the expiration Of the time indicated.
provided, however. that the termination of the
| commercial arrangement shall begin to take
| effect either on the LIST day Of January or on
! the LIST day Of July.
| SECRETARY BLAINEs REPLY.
On the same day Mr.. Blaine replied to Senior
Mendonca, saying:
lam directed by the President to state to Won
that he accepts this action Of the government
of Brazil in granting exemption of duties TO
the products of the United States as a due reci-
| procity for the action Of the Congress OF the
| United States. set forth in my note to YOU OF
November 8, 1890. it being noted that the date
fixed by Congress for the free admission of
sugars Is April !, 1891.
| shall be pleased to meet you at the DEPART
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