The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-20
THE CUBAN TREATY
TEXT OF INSTRUMENT RATIFIED
 YESTERDAY.
Negotiated in 1902 by General Bliss for America, and Senors saIdo
 and Montes for Cuba.


 treaty ratified today by the Senate was negotiated in Havana December Il, 1902. between General Tasker H. Bliss, repre- senting the United States and Senors Car los de Saldo and Jose M. Garcia Montes, representing Cuba. The United States Senate made several amendments to the document. As ratified by the Senate to- day it provides that all merchandise pro- duced by either country which now enter the other duty free shall continue free of import duties. All other Cuban pro- ducts 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 mer- chandise. All imports into Cuba from the United States not entitled to free entry shall be given a reduction of 20 per cent provided they do not fall within the hereinafter named class as to which a great reduction in duty is made. Sched- ule A provides that the following articles shah be entitled to 9 per cent reduction from the regular tariff: Machinery and apparatus of copper or its alloys or ma chimes and apparatus in which copper or its alloys enter as the component of chief value; cast iron, wrought iron and steel and manufactures thereof: articles of crystal and glass except window glass;
  of iron or steel; whiskies and brandies fish. salted, pickeled, smoked or marinat- ed: fish or shell fish. preserved in oil or otherwise in tin; articles of pottery or earthenware now classified under para graphs 21 and p of the customs tariffs of the republic of Cuba.
 Schedule B gives reduction of 30 per cent. on the following articles: Butter. the flour of wheat, corn, the flour of corn or oatmeal. chemical and pharmaceutical products and simplue drugs; liquors in hottles non-alcoholic beverages, cider, mineral waters, colors and dyes, window glass, complete or partly made-up ar ticles of hemp, flax, ,pita. jute, henequin. ramie and other vegetable flores now classified under the paragraps of group 25. Class V. of the custom tariff of the Re- public of Cuba; musical instruments. writing and printing paper, except for newspaper; cotton and manufactures thereof, except printed goods, (see Sched- ue O, all articles of cutlery, boots, shoes and slippers, now classified under Para graph 197 and 19S of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba: gold and silver plated ware, photographs, engravings, Autographs, cromo- Autographs. oleo- graphs. etc., printed from stone. zinc aluminium or other material used as la-
 
 | bacco or other purposes, and all the oth- CT papers except papers for cigarettes | and excepting maps and charts; paste board and manufactures thereof now classified under Paragraphs 157 and 164 | inclusive, of the customs tariff of the Re- public of Cuba; common or ordinary soaps now classified under Paragraph 1O5; letters A and B of the customs tar if of the Republic of Cuba; vegetables, pickled or preserved in any manner; all wines except those now classified under Paragraph 279 (A) of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba.
 Schedule c gives a reduction of 40 per cent on the following: Manufactures of cotton and all manufactures of cotton not included in the preceding schedules; articles of pottery and earthenware now classified under paragraph 20 of the customs of the republic of Cuba; porce- lain; soaps other than common. now classified under paragraph 105 of the customs tariff of the republic of Cuba; umbrellas and parasols dexterine and glucose; watches; wool and manufactures theref; silk and manufactures thereof; rice: cattle.
 It Is specifically agreed that tobacco in any form of the United States or its in- sular possessions shall not be given any concession or rebate of duty when i'm ported into Cuba. Both countries agree that the rates of duty granted during the life of the treaty shall be preferential as while the treaty is in force no Cuban sugars shall be admitted into the United States at a greater reduction than 20 per cent of the present rates and that no sugar produced by any country other than Cuba shall be admitted into the United by treaty or convention while the new treaty is in force at a lower rate of duty than that imposed by existing law. If not denounced the treaty shall continue in effort for five years from the date 1t goes into effect, which shall be ten days after exchange of notifications.