A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 622 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 622 pages of information about A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

    SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES THE PRODUCT OR MANUFACTURE OF THE UNITED STATES
    TO BE ADMITTED INTO GUATEMALA FREE OF ALL CUSTOMS DUTIES AND OF ANY
    NATIONAL OR MUNICIPAL DUES AND NATIONAL PORT CHARGES.

   1.  Live animals.

   2.  Barley, corn or maize, and rye.

   3.  Corn meal.

   4.  Potatoes, pease, and beans.

   5.  Fresh vegetables.

   6.  Rice.

   7.  Hay and straw for forage.

   8.  Tar, pitch, resin, turpentine, and asphalt.

   9.  Cotton-seed oil and other products of said seed.

  10.  Quicksilver.

  11.  Mineral coal.

  12.  Guano and other fertilizers.

  13.  Lumber and timber, in the rough or prepared for building purposes.

  14.  Houses of wood or iron, complete or in parts.

  15.  Fire bricks, lime, cement, shingles, and tiles of clay or glass
      for roofing and construction of buildings.

  16.  Marble in slabs, columns, cornices, door and window frames,
      and fountains, and dressed or undressed marble for buildings.

  17.  Piping of clay, glazed or unglazed, for aqueducts and sewers.

  18.  Wire, plain or barbed, for fences, with hooks and staples for same.

  19.  Printed books, bound or unbound; printed music; maps, charts,
      and globes.

  20.  Materials for the construction and equipment of railways.

  21.  Materials for electrical illumination.

  22.  Materials expressly for the construction of wharves.

  23.  Anchors and hoisting tackle.

  24.  Railings of cast or wrought iron.

  25.  Balconies of cast or wrought iron.

  26.  Window blinds of wood or metal.

  27.  Iron fireplaces or stoves.

  28.  Machinery, including steam machinery for agriculture and mining,
      and separate parts of the same.

  29.  Gold and silver, in bullion, dust, or coin.

It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall enter free of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose.

And whereas the Government of Guatemala has further stipulated that the laws and regulations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedule are the product or manufacture of the United States of America shall impose no undue restrictions on the importer and no additional charges on the articles imported; and

Whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Guatemala at Washington that this action of the Government of Guatemala in granting freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Guatemala, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said act; and

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