Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-20
NEW CUBAN TREATY
THE CONVENTION NEGOTIATED
AT HAVANA IN DECEMBER.
Amendments to the Document Made
by the Senate-Twenty Per Cent
Reduction Reciprocal1y.

The Cuban treaty ratified yesterday by
the Senate was negotiated in Havana De-
cember II, 1902 between General Tasker
H. Bliss, representing the United States
and Seniors Carlos de Zaldo and Jose M.
Garcia Monies, representing Cuba. The
United States Senate made several amend
ments to the document. AS ratified by the
Senate 1t provides that all merchandise
produced by either country which now
enters the other duty free, shall continue
free of import duties. All other Cuban
products imported into the United States
shall enter at a reduction Of 20 per
cent from the rate of duty imposed by the
United States on such articles Of merchan-
disc All imports into Cuba from the
United States not entitled to free entry
shall be given reduction of 20 per cent
provided they do not fall within the here
matter named classes as to which
greater reduction in duty Is made.
Entitled to Is Per Cent.
Schedule A provides that the following
articles shall be entitled to. 25 per cent
reduction from the regular tariff:
Machinery and apparatus of copper or
its alloys or machines and apparatus In
which copper or it's alloys enter as the COM
ponent of chief value; cast iron. wrought
iron and steel, and manufactures thereo1'
articles of crystal and glass, except win
dow glass; ships and water-borne vessels OF
all kinds of iron or steel: WHISTLES and
branddes; fish, sailed, picked, smoked or
marinated; fish or shell fish, preserved In
oil or otherwise in tins; articles OF pottery
or earthenware now classified under para.
graphs p and % of the customs tarin OF
the republic of Cuba.
Reduction of 80 Per Cent.
Schedule gives a reduction Of thirty
600 per centum on the following articles:
Butter; the flour OF wheat; corn. the flour
Of corn or corn meal; chemical and phar-
maceutical products and simple drugs;
malt liquors in bottles; non-alcoholic bev-
erages; cider; mineral waters; colors and
dyes; window glass; complete or partly
made-up articles Of hemp, fax pita, 1ute,
henequen, ramie and other vegetable hbers
now classified under the paragraphs OF
the republic Of Cuba; musical instruments;
writing and printing paper. except Tor
newspapers; cotton and manufactures
G.; ali articles Of cutlery; boots. shoes,
and slippers, now classified under para
graphs 1877 and 1913 of the customs tafin
of the republic of Cuba; gold ID. and ID silver
cravings, autographs, cromolithographs,
oleographs, etc, printed from stone, zinc.
aluminium or other material, used as labels
other purposes, and all the other papers
Except paper for cigarettes, and excepting
maps and charts, pasteboard and manu-
features thereof now classified under para
graphs 157 and 1854 inclusive of the customs
tariff of the republic Of Cuba; common or
ordinary soaps, now classified under para
graph 1O5. letters "A" and b OF the Gus
toms tariff Of the republic OF Cuba; vege-
tables, picked or preserved In any man
ner; all wines. except those now classified
under paragraph 279 (a) Of the customs
tariff Of the republic Of Cuba.
Forty Per Cent Reduction.
Schedule C gives a reduction OF forty (4o)
per centum on the following:
Manufactures of cotton, knitted, and all
manufactures Of cotton not included IN the
preceding schedules; cheese, fruits, pre-
served; paper pulp. perfumery and es-
sences: articles Of pottery and earthenware
now classified under paragraph ~ OF the
porcelain, soaps. other than common. now
classified under paragraph 1Oo OF the Gus
toms tariff Of the republic of Cuba; umbrel-
las and parasols. dextrine and glucose
watches, wool and manufactures thereof,
silk and manufactures thereof, rice. cattle.
It Is specifically agreed that tobacco, In
any form, Of the United States or Its insular
possessions shall not be given any conces-
sion or rebate of duty when imported into
Cuba. Both countries agree that the rates
Of duty granted during the life of the treaty
shall be prefential as respects like imports
from other countries. 1t is specially pro-
Cuban sugars shall be admitted into the
United States at a greater reduction than
20 per cent from the present tariff rates and
that no sugar, produced by any country
other than Cuba, shall be admitted into the
United States by treaty or convention, while
the new treaty is in force. at lower rate of
duty than that imposed by existing law.
Provision is made against impairment OF
the effect Of the treaty by means Of national
or local taxes or charges.
RIGHT to Denounce Treaty.
The treaty contains articles by which
either country may denounce it should
changes in the others tariff deprive the OBJ
jecting nation Of its tariff advantages on
giving six months notice, and new treaty
likewise may be negotiated in certain
events. If not denounced the treaty shall
continue in effect for five years from the
date 1t goes into effect, which shall be ten
days after exchange of Publications. After
five years it shall continue In effect from
year to year until the expiration Of one
year from the date either country serves
notice of it's intention to terminate the