ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, AUTRICHE- HONGRIE

Arrangement et Traité de réciprocité en matière des relations commerciales; du 25 mai 1892.

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 duties on imports and for other purposes,« the attention of the Government of Austria-Hungary was called to 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 be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America ;

And whereas the Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria-Hungary at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that , in view of the Act of Congress above cited, the Government of Austria-Hungary has, by due légal enactment, authorized the admission, from and after May 25, 1892, into Austria-Hungary of ail the articles or merchandise, the product of the United States of America , named in the commercial treaties which Austria-Hungary has celebrated with Germany and other nations on the terms stated in said treaties;

And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria-Hungary at Washington that this action of the Government of Austria-Hungary, in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Austria-Hungary 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, Bejamin Harrison , Président of the United States of America , have caused the above stated modifications of the tariff laws of Austria-Hungary 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 twenty-sixth day of May, one

658 États-Unis d'Amérique, Autriche -Hongrie.

thousand eight hundred and ninety two , aud of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.

[Seal.] Benj. Harrison.

By the Président :

William F. Wharton, Acting Secretary of State.

Mr. Goldschmidt to Mr. Wharton.

No. 205.] Dnited States Consulate- General,

Vienna, April 1, 1892.

Hon. William F. Wharton,

Assistant Secretary of State.

Sir : I have the honor to transmit to the Department of State a carefully prepared list, showing the réductions on the Austro-Hungarian gênerai tariff duties, lowered by convention with Germany , Italy , Belgium , Switzerland and Servia, giving a condensed abstract of such duties as lowered by convention with the above-named countries according to the United States tariff classification, with the Austrian tariff number added, and showing both the gênerai tariff duty and the duty lowered by convention, in gold florins per 100 kilograms. I will add that the letters attached to each article represent the countries which are granted thèse concessions. G stands for Germany, I for Italy, S for Switzerland , B for Belgium, and Sv for Servia. One item, »sparkling wines,« refers to F, or France. I am, etc.,

Julius Goldschmidt, United States Consul - General.

[Enclosure in Consul - General Goldschmidt^ note.]

Condensed extract of duties lowered hy convention.

Austrian

tariff number.

Articles.

General tariff duty

per 100 kilograms

Duty lowered by convention, per 100 kilograms

Agricultural implements:

Machines and apparatus of base metals (i. e., with more than 50 per cent of base metals) not otheiwise provided for (G., I.) . . . .

Machines and apparatus not particulary enumerated (paper machines with drying apparatus), brick machines (machines for reducing, pressing, or forming of clay earths), machines for kneading dough, drying apparatus for

Goldflorins.

Commerce,

Articles.

General tarifi duty

per 100 kilograms

fruit and vegetables , colanders of every description weighing 60 grains and more, rolling and milling machines, electric dynamos, machines for making tools weighing 100 grains and more, engines for steamers — ail thèse either complète or taken apart

Ail other machines and apparatus not other-

wise provided for (G., L, S., B.)

Machines for making blinds, embroidering machines, etc. (G., L, S.)

Common iron and steel goods, made from malléable iron, cast steel, wrought iron or steel — Painted roughly but not bored (G., L, B., S.) Ground , tumed, planed, or coated with copper, tin, zinc, lead, or finely painted

Colored wooden spools (G., I.)

Animais:

Oxen (G., I.) per head .

Young cattle (G., I.) do. . .

Hogs (G., I.) do. . .

Horses up to 2 years old (G., I.) .do. . .

Mules, donkeys (G., I.) do. . .

Dead fowls (G., I.)

Fish, fresh ; river and creek crawfish ; snails,

fresh (G., I.) . . . . .

Art works ,

Bark and extracts, coloring wood :

Dyewoods —

Cut into pièces — rasped, ground, eut (G.,I.)

Reduced in size, fermented

Orchilla, Persia, indigo, cochineal (G., I.) Tanning and dyeing extracts not otherwise provided for (G., I.)

Blacking, shoeblaking (.G., I) •

Bones, hoofs, horns, etc. •

Books, maps, engravings, etc

Brass and manufactures of sheets, and wire , 0.5 milimeter and less in thickness (G., L). . . . Plated (silvered) wire, sheets, tablets, plates

of copper and brass (G., I.)

Accumulators made of leaden plates with minimum (S.) . . .

Ail other goods of this tariff number (I., G.) . Toys, needles, buckles, hooks und eyes, buttons, thimbles, and similar smal larticles of use; also in connection with other materials, if

Goldflorins.