Wire. barbed, and staples for fences
Commerce.
Plates of iron for building purposes.
Minerai ores.
Kettles of iron for making sait.
TCftt.tlfiS of ii*on for makincr sncrar
lVUlllwO \J± ilUU 1U1 Illll-IVIAI^ OUCltlil i
Moulds for making sugar.
Guys for mining purposes.
Furnaces and instruments for assaying metals.
Scientific instruments.
Models of machinery and buildings.
Boats, lighters, tackle, ancbors , cbains, girtlines ,
sails and ail
other articles for vessels, to be used in the ports, lakes and
ri vers of the
Republic.
Printing materials , including presses , type , ink ,
and ail other
accessories.
Printed books, pamphlets and newspapers, bound
or unbound,
maps, photographs, printed music and paper for music.
Paper for printing newspapers.
Quicksilver.
Lodestones.
Hops.
Sulphate of quinine.
Gold and silver in bars, dust or coin.
Samples of merchandise the duties on which do not exceed Sh. 1.
It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose.
And that the Government of Salvador has further stipulated that the laws and régulations, adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the déclarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedule are the product or manufacture of the United States of America, shall impose no additional charges on the importer nor undue restrictions on the articles imported.
And whereas the Secretary of State has , by my direction , given assurance to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Salvador at "Washington that this action of the Government of Salvador in granting freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Salvador, and in stipulating for a more complète reciprocity arrangement, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congres 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 laws of Salvador 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 thirty-first day of December, one
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Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Salvador.
thousand eight hundred and ninety-oue , and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.
[Seal] Benj. Harrison.
By the Président:
James G. Blaine.
Secretary of State.
Preceding Correspondence.
Mr. Blaine to Sefior Guirola.
Department of State,
Washington, January 3, 1891.
Sir: I have the honor to bring to your attention the fact that the Congress of the United States at ifs last session enacted a law, of which a copy is inclosed herewith, in which provision was made for the admission into the United States, free of ail duty, of the folio wing articles: Ail sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard in color, molasses, coffee, tea, hides, and skins.
In section 3 of this law it is declared that thèse remissions of duty were made »with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing« those articles; ane it is provided that, whenever the Président shall be satisfied that reciprocal favors are not granted to the products of the United States in the countries referred to , »he shall have the power and it shall be his duty« to impose upon the articles above enumerated, the products of the countries concerned, the rates of duty set forth in section 3.
The Government of the United States, being earnestly desirous of maintaining with the Republic of Salvador such trade relations as shall be reciprocally equal and mutually advantageous , I am directed by the Président to request you to bring the above-mentioned provisions of this act of Congress to the attention of your Government, and to express the hope that you may be empowered to enter with me upon the considération of the subject, with a view to the adjustment of the commercial relations between the two Republics on a permanent basis of reciprocity , profitable alike to both.
Accept, sir, etc.,
James G. Blaine.
Senor Don Benjamin Molina Guirola, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Salvador.
Sefior Morales to Mr. Blaine.
[Translation.]
Légation of Salvador,
Washington, December 28, 1891.
Mr. Secretary of State: The Government of Salvador, desiring to
Commerce.
respond in the fullest manner to the invitation extented by Your Excellency in your note dated January 3 of the présent year, and having in view the fact that the United States of America are disposed to receive, free of customs, municipal, and ail other duties , coffee and the other articles named in section 3 of the law of the Congress of this country approved October 1 of last year, on condition that my Government will concède equal exemptions for some of the agricultural and industrial products of this country, has directed me to propose to Your Excellency the conclusion of a provisional commercial arrangement, for which it is now invested with the necessary powers.
For this purpose, I propose to Your Excellency to admit, free of duties, in the Republic of Salvador , from and after February 1 next , the articles enumerated in the schedule which I have the honor to attach hereto, provided they are products of the United States of America.
My Government, however, reserves full liberty to adopt the laws and régulations necessary to protect its customs revenues against fraud and contraband under the claim of introducing, as American, articles and merchandise proceeding from other countries; but it will not impose any additional charges upon the importers , nor undue restrictions on the articles introduced.
In case my proposition is accepted, my Government will apply to the Congress of the Eepublic , at its session in February next, for the necessary authority to conclude with the United States of America and put in opération a more complète reciprocity arrangement.
If the authority which my Government shall ask is granted new nego tiations shall be opened in this city within sixty days after the authority is obtained; and, in case a definite arrangement is reached, it shall be put in force in the Republic of Salvador within sixty days after its completion and shall supersede the provisional arrangement which I now propose.
It is understood that, should the Congress of Salvador take no action on the subjet before its adjournment, the Government of the United States may terminate the provisional arrangement now under considération by giving the Government of Salvador thirty days' notice in advance; and, if no definite arrangement shall have been made before January 1 , 1893, the Government of Your Excellence may likewise déclare the said provisional arrangement terminated.
I hope that His Excellency the Président of the United States will recognize, in the proposition which I now make to Your Excellency, a proof that my Government earnestly desires to enlarge the commercial relations between the two peoples, and that it has accepted the law of Congress of the United States as an expression of friendly and just reciprocity.
In submitting the foregoing , it is pleasant for me to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my respect and considération.
Manuel L. Morales.
To the Horonable James G. Blaine, Secretary of State of the United States of America.
Etats - Unis d' Amérique , Salvador.
[Inclosure in Senor Morales's note.]
Schedule of Products and Manufactures which theRepublic of Salvador will admit free of ail customs, municipal, and any other kind of duty.
