ETATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, ESPAGNE

Arrangement et Traité de réciprocité en matière des relations commerciales entre les Etats-Unis d'Amérique et les Iles de Cuba et Porto Rico; du 16 juin 1891.

Publication officielle.

By the Président ofthe 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 duties on imports, and for other purposes,« the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of Spain the action of the Congress of the United States of America , 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 Spain at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in reciprocity and compensation for the admission into the United States of America free of ail duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said act, the Government of Spain will, by due légal enactement, and as a provisional measure, admit, from and after September 1, 1891, into ail the established ports of entry of the Spanish islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, the articles or merchandise named in the following Transitory Schedule, on the terms stated therein, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States and proceed directly from the ports of said States :

Transitory Schedule.

Products or manufactures of the United States to be admitted into Cuba and Porto Rico free of duties :

1. Méats, in brine, salted or smoked, bacon, hams, and méats preserved in cans, in lard or by extraction of air ; jerked beef excepted,