Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-02-13
President Harrison Issues an Official
Proclamation Regarding Recip-
. 'rUcal Trade With Brazil.
The Brazilian Government Has
Notified the United States
Of Their Tariff.
Grain and Farm Products Will be
Admitted Free-2a Per Cent.
on Manufactures.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The president
late this afternoon issued the following
proclamation:
BY the president of the United States of
America: Proclamation.
WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 3, of all
act OF congress approved OctObert LIST,
1890, entitled: A act to reduce revcnue
and euualiZe duties on imports, and for
other PURPOSES The secretary of state
OF the United States of America has con
municated to the government of the United
States of Brazil action of the congress of
the UnitedI States Of America, with a
view to secure reciprocal trade in declar-
ing the articles enumerated in said section
3, 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
and minister plenipotentiary OF Brazil at
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
after April l, 1891, into all established
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 a nrOduct and manufactures of the limit.
ed States of America.
|. Schedule OF articles to be admitted
free into Brazil: Wheat; wheat flour: corn
or maize, and manufactures thereof, in
Guiding cornmeaI and starch: rye. rye
flour, buckwheat, buckwheat tlour' and
barley: potatoes, beans and peas: hav and
oats: pork, sailed, including picked nOrk
and bacon, except hams: fish. sailed. dried
or picked: cotton-seed oil: coal. anthracite
and bituminous: rosin. tar, pitch and tur-
ppntine. agricultural tools. ;mnlpmrnts and
machinery: mining and mechanic Tools
implements and machinery, including stal
tionary and portable engines and ali ma
chinery for manufacturing and industrial
purposes, except sewing machines. instru-
ments and books for the arts and sciences:
railway construction material and eouip-
ment. And the government of Brazil has,
by legal enactment, further authorized the
admiSsian INTO all the established norris of
entry of Brazil, with a reduction of 81 ppr
centum of the duty designated on II, re-
sppctive articles in the tariff now in force
or which may hereafter be adopted in the
United States of Brazil. whether national
state or muucipaI. on articles named in
the following schedule, provided the same
be Il product or manufacture of the United
States or America:
\ schedule of the articles to be admitted
into Brazil with a reduction of the duty OF
IS 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: manufacture
OF iron and steel. single or miypd not in
cluded in the foregoing free schpdnie.
leather and manufactures thprpof eyrrnt
boots and shoes: lumber, timber and man.
ufacturts of wood. includinp c0nnerane
furniture of ali kinds WAGONS carts and
CARRIAGES: manufactures Of ruhhpr And
that the government of Brazil has further
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