Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-05
Wheat. wheat -four.

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| machinery.
| Mining and mechanical tools, nipple
ments and machinery, including station
airy and and portable engines, and all
machinery for manufacturing and indus
trial purposes, except sewing machines
| instruments and books for the arts and
sciences.
Railway construction material and
equipment.
| And that the government of Brazil has,
| by legal enactment, further authorized the
admission into all the established ports of
entry of Brazil with 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 ormunicipal, of TIE articles of mer-
chandise named in the following schedule,
provided that the same be the product or
manufacture of the United States of
| America:
1.-Schedule of articles to be admitted
into Brazil with reduction of duty of 25
per centum.
Lard and substitutes therefor.
Bacon and hams.
Butter and cheese.
Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits
and vegetables.
Manufactures of cotton, including cot
ton clothing
Manufactures of iron ard steel, single
or mixed, not included in the foregoing
free schedule.
Laether and the manufactures thereof,
except boots and 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 regu-
lations adopted to protect its revenues and
and prevent fraud in the declarations and
proof that the articles named in the fore
going schedules are the product or manu-
facture of the United States of America
shall place no undue restrictions on the
importer, nor impose any additional
charges or fees therefore on the articles
imported
And whereas the secretary of state has,
by my direction, given assurance to the
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of Brazil at Washington that
this action of the government of Brazil
in granting exemption of duties to the
products and manufactures of the United
States of America is accepted as due re-
ciprocity for the attention of congress, as
set forth in section of this act,
Now, therefore, be it known that |,
Benjamin Harrison, President of the
United States or America, have caused
the above stated notifications of the tariff
law Of Brazil to be made public for the
information of the citizens of the United
States of America.
The duties which have hitherto been
levied by Brazil on the articles now pro-
posed to be made free are as follows:
Wheat, free; wheat -four, 10 per cent.
adj vaorem on fixed valuation Of 10 reis
per kilogram; corn, 10 per cent. adj valor
EN- on a valuation of 5 refs per kilOgram ;
corn flour, 30 per cent ad valorem on a
valuation of 120 refs per kilogram; rye,
10 per cent. ad valOreln on valuation of
20 reis per kilogram; potatoes, beans and
peas, 10 per cent. ad valorem on valu-
alton of reis per kilogram; pork, 10 per
cent, adj valOrem on valuation OF 40 refs
per kilogram; dry fish, 10 per cent. ad
valorem on a valuation of 20 reis per kilo-
grum; canned fish, 80 per cent. ad valorem
on a valuation of 800 refs per kilogram;
turpentine, 10 per cent ad valorem on a
valuation of 40 refs per kilogram; rosin
10 per cent. ad valorem on valuation of
5 refs per kilogram.
The old duties on the articles reduced by
25 per cent. were in part as follows: Lard
20 per cent. ad valorem on valuation of
100 refs per kilOgram; cotton clothing, as
high as 80 per cent. ad valorem per 100
refs; stockings, 40 per cent. upon a valu
alton of 1000 reis per dozen: shirts 30 per
cent. upon valuation of $500 refs per
dozen. On some dry goods the duty was
as much as 30 per cent. on high valu-
alton, while on different qualities Of oil,
machinery and naval stores it was very
heavy.
The immediate effect of this treaty will
be to give the United states an important
advantage In the market of Brazil. except
such as may arise from the cheapening of
cost and the wider distribution of our
staple products and of certain kinds of
machinery among the Brazilian people.
We do not open our ports more widely.
or admit any articles from Brazil free
which were not already free. or, in the
case of sugar, soon to be free to all other
nations. 1t is therefore natural that
speculations should be INDUCED in as to
the motive which has caused the Brazil
ian government TO assent to this, at first
sight, one-sided treaty. No doubt the
course of events will solve this puzzle. 1t
may be reasonably surmised that other
countries from which we receive coffee,
sugar, molasses and hides free will be
warned that these articles will be put upon
the dutible list when coming from those
countries, unless satisfactory reel procal
arrangements CAL be made, Involving lib
eral reduction on the tariff of those coun-
tries on our stapien reproductions. Should
those countries respond satisfactorily
Brazil would have no advantage over
them. But should they fail to respond
satisfactorily, and the duty on sugar, cof-
fee, molasses and hides be reimposed as. to
them, then and only in such cases, would
Brazil reap any advantage from the treaty
in large share of our trade.
1t is probable, therefore, that the pres
ent reciprocity treaty is only the first step
toward opening the ports of many other
tropical countries to our products and man
ufactures.
THE DECLINE CHECKED.