ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, BRÉSIL

Arrangement et Traité de réciprocité en matière des relations commerciales; du 31 janvier 1891.

Publication officielle.

By the Président of the United States of America. A Proclamation.

Whereas, pursuant to Section 3 of the Act of Congress approved October 1, 1890, entitled »An Act to reduce the revenue and equalize

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duties on imports, and for other purposes,« the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of the United States of Brazil the action of the Congress of the United States of Amercia, with a view to secure reciprocal trade , in declaring the articles enumerated in said Section 3, to 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 reciprocity for and considération of the admission into the United States of America free of ail duty of the articles enumerated in Section 8 of said Act, the Government of Brazil has, by légal enactment, authorized the admission, from and after April 1, 1891, into ail the established ports of entry of Brazil, free of ail duty, whether national, state, or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product and manufacture of the United States of America: