I. — Schedule of Articles to be admitted free into Brazil
Wheat; Wheat - flour ;
Corn or maize, and the manufactures thereof, including corn meal and starch ;
Rye, rye- flour, buckwheat, buckwheat - flour, and barley; Potatoes, beans and peas; Hay ands oats;
Pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon, except hams; Fish, salted, dried or pickled ; Cotton-seed oil;
Coal, anthracite and bituminous; Rosin, tar, pitch and turpentine ; Agricultural tools, implements and machinery,
Mining and mechanical tools, implements and machinery, including stationary and portable engines , and ail machinery for manufacturing and industrial purposes except sewing-machines ;
Instruments and books for the arts and sciences;
Railway construction material and equipment.
And that the Government of Brazil has by légal enactment, further authorized the admission into ail the established ports of entry of Brazil, with a réduction of twenty-five per centum of the duty designated on the respective articles in the tariff now in force or which may hereafter be adopted in the United States of Brazil , whether national, state , or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States of America:
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2. — Schedule of Articles to be admitted into Brazil with a réduction of duty of twenty-five per Centum.
Lard and substitutes therefor; Bacon bams; Butter and cheese;
Canned and preserved nieats, fish, fruits and vegetables; >
Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing;
Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing free schedule;
Leather and the manufactures thereof, except boots and shoes;
Lumber, timber , and the manufactures of wood , including cooperage furniture of ail kinds, wagons , carts and carriages ;
Manufactures of rubber.
An that the Government of Brazil has further provided tbat the laws and régulations, adopted , to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the déclarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedules are the product or manufacture of the United States of America, shall place no undue restrictions on the importer, nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles imported.
And whereas the Secretary of State has , by my direction, given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington that this action of the Government of Brazil in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress, as set forth in Section 3 of said Act:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, Président of the United States of America, have caused the above stated modifications of the tariff law of Brazil to be made public for the information of the citizens of the United States of America.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone , and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifteenth.
[Seai] Benj. Harrison.
By the Président:
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State.
Preceding Diplomatie Correspondance.
Mr Blaine to Senhor Mendonça.
Département of State,
Washington, November 3, 1890.
Sir : The Congress of the United States of America, at its late session, enacted a new tariff law in the third section of which provision was mad
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for the admission into the ports of the United States, free of ail duty, whether national, state, or municipal, of the following articles:
Sugars — ail not above number 16, Dutch standard in color, ail tank bottoms , ail sugar drainings and sugar sweepings , sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, and concrète and concentrated molasses;
Molasses ;
Coffee ;
Hides — raw or uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled. Angora goat-skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured. Asses, skins, raw or unmanufactured, and skins, except sheepskins with the wool on.
In the law providing for the free admission of the foregoing articles, Congress added a section declaring that thèse remissions of duty were made »with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing those articles;* and that, whenever the Président should become satisfied that reciprocal favors were not granted to the products of the United States in the countries referred to, it was made his duty to impose upon the articles above enumerated the rates of duty set forth in the section of the law above cited, of which I have heretofore transmitted you a copy.
The Government of the United States of America being desirous of maintaining with the United States of Brazil such trade relations as shall be reciprocally equal, I should be glad to receive from you an assurance that the Government of Brazil will meet the Government of the United States in a spirit of sincère friendship , and that it may prove to be the happy fortune of you , Mr. Minister , and myself to be instrumental in establishing commercial relations between the two Republics on a permanent basis of reciprocity, profitable alike to both.
To this end I should be glad if you could advise me of the changes which Brazil would be willing to make in her System of tariff duties, in response to the changes proposed in the tariff of the United States which are favorable to your country.
In case the Government of Brazil should see proper to provide for the free admission into its ports of any of the products or manufactures of the United States, or at a specified réduction of the existing rates of duty, your Government may be assured that no export tax, whether national, state, or municipal, will be imposed upon such products and manufactures in the United States.
It may be furthur understood that while the Government of the United States of America would reserve the right to adopt such laws and régulations as should be found necessary to protect the revenue and prevent fraud in the déclarations and proof that the articles herein enumerated, and whose free admission is provided for by the tariff law above cited, are the product or manufacture of Brazil, the laws and régulations to be adopted to that end would place no undue restrictions on the importer, nor impose any additional charges or fees upon the articles imported.
In the happy event of an agreement between the two Governments, the same can be notified to each other and to the world by an officiai announcement simultaneously issued by the executive departments of the
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United States of America and the United States of Brazil; and such an agreement can remain in force so long as neither Government shall definitely inform the other of its intention and décision to consider it at an end. Accept, Mr. Minister, the renewed assurances of my highest considération.
James G. Blâme.
The Honorable Salvador de Mendonça,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil, on spécial mission.
Senhor Mendonça to Mr. Blaine.
Légation of the United States of Brazil,
Washington, January 31, 1891.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 3d of November, 1890, in which you inform me of the action of the Congress of the United States of America, at its late session, in the enactement of a new tariff law, in which provision was made for the admission into the ports of the United States, free of ail duty, whether national, state or municipal , of the articles enumerated in your note ; that said action was taken »with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries poducing those articles ;« and that, as the Government of the United States of America is desirous of maintaining witht he United States of Brazil such trade relations as shall be reciprocally equal , you express the hope that you may receive from me the assurance that the Government of the United States of Brazil will meet the Government of the United States of America in a spirit of sincère friendship.
I am pleased to be able to inform you, in reply, that the United States of Brazil are equally animated by a désire to strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations which happily exist between them and the United States of America, and to establish the commercial intercourse of the two countries upon a basis of reciprocity and equality ; and I heartily participate in the hope which you express, that it may prove to be the happy fortune of you , Mr Secretary , and myself to be instrumental in establishing commercial relations between the two Republics on a permanent basis of mutual profit.
It is, therefore, a matter of great gratification to me to be able to communicate to you the fact that the Government of the United States of Brazil, in due reciprocity for, and in considération of, the admission into the ports of the United States of America, free of ail duty, whether national, state, or municipal, of the articles enumerated in your note of the 3d of November, 1890, has , by légal enacment, authorized the admission into ail the established ports of entry of Brazil, on and after the ist of April, 1891, 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 or manufacture of the United States of America;
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Schedule of articles to be admitted free into Brazil.
Wheat ; Wheat-flour;
Corn or maize, and the manufactures thereof, including corn-meal and starch;
Rye, rye-flour, buckwheat, buckwheat - flour, and barley; Potatoes, beans and peas ; Hay and oats ;
Pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon, except hams ;
Fish, salted, dried or pickled ;
Cotton - seed oil ;
Coal, anthracite and bituminous ;
Rosin, tar, pitch, and turpentine ;
Agricultural tools, implements, and machiuery ;
Mining and mechanical tools , implements , an machinery , including stationary and portable eugines, and ail machinery for manufacturing and industrial purposes, except sewing -machines;
Instruments and books for the arts and sciences ;
Railway construction material and équipaient.
And the Government of the United States of Brazil has, by légal enactment , further authorized the admission into ail the established ports of entry of Brazil, with a réduction of 25 per cent of the duty designated on the respective articles in the tarif now in force or which may hereafter be adopted in the United States of Brazil, whether national, state, or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States of America:
Schedule of articles to be admitted into Brazil with a réduction of duty
of 25 per cent.
Lard and subsitutes therefor; Bacon hams :
Butter and cheese ;
Canned and preserved méats, fish, fruits, and vegetables ;
Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing ;
Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed , not included in the foregoing fre schedule ;
Leather and manufactures thereof, except boots and shoes;
Lumber, timber , and the manufactures of wood , including cooperage, furniture of ail kinds, wagons, carts, and carriages ;
Manufactures of rubber.
I inclose herewith tables compiled from the latest published statistics, showing the state of trade of Brazil in the articles enumerated in the foregoing schedules.
The Government of the United States of Brazil has also provided that no increase shall be made in the export tax now in force, whether national,
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state, or municipal, on the articles enumerated in your note of the 3d of November, 1890, nor upon any article, the product of Brazil, now on the free list of the tariff of the United States of America so long as such article contenues to be admitted free of duty; and it has further provided that if any réduction is made by Brazil in the export duty on any of its products, such réduction shall immediately to said products when exported to the United States of America.
The Government of Brazil reserves the right to adopt the necessary laws and régulations to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the déclarations and proof that the articles enumerated in the foregoing schedules are the product or manufacture of the United States of America; but the laws and régulations to be adopted shall place no undue restrictions upon the importer , nor impose any additional charges or fees therefor upon the articles imported.
I confidently hope that the foregoing action of my Government will satisfy the Président of the United States of America that the United States of Brazil have met the libéral législation of the Congress of the United States in a spirit of sincère friendship and reciprocity ; and, in that happy event , I shall hold myself ready to agrée with you upon a time when an officiai announcement of this législation may be simultaneously issued by the executive departments of the two Governinents , with the understanding that the commercial arrangement thus put in opération shall remain in force so long as neither Government shall definitely , at least three months in advance, inform the other of its intention and décision to consider it at an end at the expiration of the time indicated; provided, however, that the termination of the commercial arrangement shall begin to take effect either on the lst day of January or on the lst day of July.
I improve the opportunity to renew the assurance of my highest considération.
Salvador de Mendonça.
Hon. James G. Blakie,
Secretary of State of the United States of America.
Mr. Blaine to Senhor Mendonça.
Department of State,
Washington, January 31, 1891.
Sir : I have great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your note of this date, in which you inform me that the Government of the United States of Brazil, in due reciprocity for, and in considération of, the free admission into the ports of the United States of the products of Brazil enumerated in my note of November 3, 1890, has by légal enactment authorized the free or privileged admission, on and after the lst of April, 1891, of the articles, the product or manufacture of the United States of America, named in your note; that your Government has further provided
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that no increase shall be made in the export tax on the articles admitted free into the United States, and that ail future réduction in the export tax shall immediately apply to such articles when sent to the United States, and that the laws and régulations adopted by Brazil to prevent fraud shall uot impose any additional charges or fees therefor on the articles named in your note, iraported from the United States.
I am directed by the Président to state to you that he accepts this action of the Government of Brazil, in granting exemption of duties to the products of the United States, as a due reciprocity for the action of the Congress of the United States, as set forth in my note to you of November 3, 1890, it being noted that the date fixed by Congress for the free admission of sugars is the lst day of April, 1891.
I shall be pleased to meet you at the Department of State at your early convenience to agrée upon the time and manner of making public announcement of this commercial arrangement, which it is understood shall remain in force so long as neither Government shall definitely , at least three months in advance, inform the other of its intention and décision to consider it at an end at the expiration of the time indicated ; provided, however, that the termination of the commercial arrangement shall begin to take effect either on the lst day of January or the lst day of July.
Congratulating you, Mr. Minister , on the valuable service which you have rendered in bringing aboat this important and satisfactory resuit, I renew to you the assurance of my highest considération.
James G. Blaine.
The Honorable Salvador de Mendonça,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil.
Mr. Blaine to th.e Président.
[Détails of reciprocal arrangement.] Department of State,
Washington, February 7, 1891.
To the Président:
In response to your direction , I herewith submit two tables, A and B, which clearly exhibit the facts of the commercial arrangement between the United States of America and the United States of Brazil , completed on the 5th of this month.
Table A will show the articles from the United States which will be entitled to free admission into ail the ports of Brazil after the lst of April next.
It will also show the average annual value , as compiled from the Brazilian statistical reports for the last three years, of the imports of said articles into Brazil from the United States, and the average annual value, during the same period, of the imports of said articles into Brazil from other countries, and the rates now charged thereon.
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Imports into Brazil
Table A.
in dollars, to become free of duty when exported from the United States.
Articles.
From the United States.
From ail other countries.
Total imports.
Wheat
Wheat-flour
Corn or maize and the manufactures thereof,including corn-meal and starch . . .
Rye and rye-flour
Barley and buckwheat and buckwheat-flour
Hay and oats
Beans and peas
Potatoes
Pork,salted and pickled, and bacon, except hams . . . .
Cotton-seed oil
Fish, salted, dried or pikled
Coal, anthracite and bito-
minous
Rosin, tar pitch , and tur pentine
Agricultural implements tools, and machinery . . .
Mining and mechanical ma chinery , tools and implements, including stationary and portable engines , and ail machinery for manufacturing and industrial purposes, except sewing-ma chines
Instruments and books for arts and sciences
Railroad materiai and equipment
Total
Sh. 150.90 2,778,353.00
Sh.547,845.84 914,329.24
Sh.547,995.84 3,692,682.24
From this table (A) of articles to be admitted free, it will be seen that of the total annual average importations into Brazil of Sh. 20,003,99.76 of the said articles, the United States have heretofore only furnished articles to the value of Sh. 3,394,633, while other countries have furnished articles to the value of Sh. 16,609,306.76.
Table B will make a similar exhibit of the articles from the United States entitled to admission into ail the ports of Brazil , after the ist of April next, at a réduction of 25 per cent of the duty designated on the respec-
*) Port and provincial charges, équivalent to 5 per cent duty.
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tive articles in the tariff now in force in Brazil, or which may hereafter be adopted in Brazil.
It will also show the average annual value, taken from the Brazilian reports for the last three years, of the imports of said articles into Brazil from the United States ; and also the average annual value , during the same period, of the imports into Brazil from other countries, and the rates now charged thereon.
Table B.
Imports into Brazil, in dollars, the duties on which will be reduced 25 per cent when exported from the United States.
Articles.
From the United States.
From ail other countries.
Total imports.
Rate of duty.
Lard and substitutes of lard
Bacon hams
Butter and cheese
Canned and preserved méats, fish, fruits, and vegetables
Manufactures of cotton , including cotton clothing . .
Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed , not included in the foregoiug schedule
Leather and the manufactures of leather, except boots and shoes
Lumber, tiniber, and the manufactures of wood , including cooperage, furniture of ail kinds, wagons, carts, and carriages
Manufactures of rubber . .
Total
Sh.371,399.00 556.00 12,941.00
Sh. 348,166.60 103,610.66 2,000,507.91
Sh.719,565.60 104,166.66 2,013,448.91
Per cent.
15 to 30
20 aud 48 15 to 48
15,30, and48 30 to 50
30 to 60
From this table (B) it will be seen that, of the total average importations into Brazil of Sh. 38,631,242.70 of said articles, the United States have hitherto furnished articles to the value only of Sh. 2,035,899, while other countries have furnished articles to the value of Sh. 36,595,343.70.
Taking the two schedules together, it is shown that, of a total annual importation into Brazil of Sh. 58,638,182.46 of ail thèse articles, only Sh. 5,430,532 came from the United States, as against Sh. 53,204,650.46 from other countries.
In return for thèse concessions the United States admits into its markets free of duty the sugar, molasses, coffee, and hides, the growth and product of Brazil.
Respectfully submitted,
James G. Blaine,
Nouv. Recueil Gén. 2e. S. XX.
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