The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-07
PRESIDENT HARaISON'S PROCLAMATION,
MANY Products of Each Country to BE
Admitted Free Into the
Other.
A Policy That Will Rebound to the
Commercial Benefit Of Both
Republics.

WASHINGTON, teD. D.--lue pTeslueu
late this afternoon issued the following
proclamation:
BY the president of the United State
OF America, proclamation:
Whereas, Pursuant to section 3 of tn
act of congress approved October l, 1890
entitled IAN act to reduce revenue ant
equAlized duties on imports, and fol-
other purposes" the secretary of state o.
the United States Of America cOmmuni.
Gated to the government of the United
States of Brazil the action of the congress
Of the United States of America, with the
view to secure reciprocal trade, in declar-
ing articles enumerated in said section .
t-wit: Sugars, molasses, coffee and
hides, 10 be exempt from duty upon their
importation into the United States OF
America, and
Where's, The envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipoIentiAry of Brazil a.
Washington has communicated to the
secretary of state the fact that, III
due reciprocity for and of federation OF
admission into the United States OF
all duty of articles enumerated in sec
ton 3 of said act, the government of Bra.
I'll, has, by legal enactment, authorized
the admission, from and after April l.,
1891, into all established ports of entr,
OF Brazil, free of all duty,
whether national, state or munich
pal, of articles or merchandise named in
the following schedule, provided thai
the same be the product and manufac-
ture of the United states:
l. "The schedule of articles to be adj
mltted free into Brazil: Wheat, wheat,
flour, corn or maize, and manufactures
thereof, including corn meal and starch;
rye, and rye flour, ~buckwheat, buckwhpat
-four, and barley; potatots, beans aud
peas, nay 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 te%rpentine; agricultural
tools, implements and machinery, includ-
ing stationary and portable engines, and
all machinery for manufacturing and IN
dustrial purposes, except sewing machine |
instruments and books for art or science;
railway construction material and sequip
ment. And the government of Brazil
has, by legal enactment, further author I
lied by the admission into all established
ports of entry Of Brazil, with a reduction
OF twenty-five per centum of duty de-
,lgnated on the respective articles in
tariff now in force or which may here
after be adopted in the United States OF
Brazil, whether national, state, or mum
cipal, of articles or merchandise named
III the following schedule, provided the
same be the product or manufacture OF
the United States of America.
2. Schedule of articles to he admitted
into Brazil with a reduction Of 25 per
Lard and substitutes therefor.
bacon, hams, butter and cheese, canned
and preserved meats, fish, fruits and
vegetables, manufacturers OF cotton, in
cotton clothing, manufactures OF
iron and steel, single or mixed not in
in the foregoing free schedule,
leather and manufactures thereof, except
boots and shoes, lumber, timber and man
of wood, including cooperage,
/ urniture of all kinds, wagons, carts and
carriages, manufactures Of rubber. And
that the government of Brazil has further
provided that rules and regulations. al
opted TO protect its revenue and prevent
fraud in declarations and proof thai
articles named in the foregoing
schedules are product or manufacture OF
the United States of America, shall
place no undue restrictions on importers
nor impose any additional charges or
fees therefor on articles imported, and
Whereas, The secretary of state has,
by my direction, given assurance to
the envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington,
thatthe action OF the government of Bra
iii 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 Therefor, be it known. that l,
Benjamin Harrison, president of the
Tn ted States of America, have caused the
above stated notifications of the tariff
law of Brazil to be made public for the
information Of the cltizens Of the United
States of America.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington this
fifth day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and n%inety-one, and of the indie
pendence of the United States OF Ameri-
ca one hundred and fifteenth.
"BENJAMIN HARRISON,
"President.
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