Arizona republican., 1899-06-26
TO LOWER THE DUTY
The Brazil Tariff Schedule
 Must Come Down.
A Reply From Brazil is Awaited Be fore Any Specific Aefion WI Be Taken by inc United Sfafe s. Sfafe Officials are Silent.

Washington. June 2J.-The proposed
 retalitory duty upon the coffee of Bra gil w:ll not be levied until a reply has
 been received ito the last representa- ions of the Department of State to the Brazilian -goverRmeRt,or until reason able time for making such reply has passed. The negotiations for obtaining better terms for American products in Brazil have been conducted through the United States Minister at the Braz- ilian capital and communications have gone directly from the State Depart ment to him for presentation to the Brazilian foreign office.
 Information is scaGty at the State Department on the subject of the date of the latest communication and the time which will be allowed the Brazil ian government for making d reply. There is a disinclination 10 disclose any of the details of the correspond ence, for fear that the interested par ties might avail themselves of the in- formation to defeat the propositions of the two governments.
 The State Department has asked that Brazil make some important re ductions on her present high schedule of duties on American goods The schedule of the reciprocity treaty of 1891 admitted free of duty wheat, wheat flour, rye, rye flour, potatoes, beans, peas, hay, oats, salted pork, salted, dried CT pickled fish, euthracite, and bituminous coal, rcsin, tar, pitch, turpentine. agricultural tools, imple- mentS and machinery, including sta tionary. and portable engines and all machinery for manufacturing and in- dusriaI purposes, except sewing ma chimes, instruments and books for the arts and sciences and railway eonstruc- tion material and equipment. Wheat is still free of duty to all nations but flour pays a duty of 30 reis per kile- gramme, or about 10 per cent, barley pays 23 per cent, hay pays 20 per cent. and cotton seed oil, pays 50 per cent. Manufactures of cotton, upon which a concession of p per cent. was allowed under the reciprocity treaty of 1891, are charged duties of from 50 to 60 per cent. the duties on ribbons rang ing as high as 16,O0O reis per kill gramme. Tools and machinery are for the most part heavily taxed. although agricultural implements are free of duty and locomotives are charged oEIy 15 per cent.
 It is believed at the State Department that reductions upon some of these duties would not only benefit the Unit ed Sta;eS. but would do much to stimu- late Brazilian industry by affOrding it the proper machinery and equipment. Our minister in Brazil has been derect- ed to bring these facts to the attention of the Brazilian government, and to in sist that in view of the liberal terms offered by the United States upon the | great Brazilian product, coffee, some | were in equity due to this | country
 The statistics show that the imports | of coffee from Brazil for the ten | ending with April 1898, were 551 PIP, 624 pounds, representing a | value of S35, ,244, ,15S, while the imports for the ten months ending with April last were 524, ,S64, ,OO1 pounds, valued
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