[A proclamation suspending the free admission into the
United States of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, the production
of Hayti.]
By the President of the United States
of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas in section 3 of an act passed by the Congress of the United
States entitled “An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on
imports, and for other purposes,” approved October 1, 1890, it was
provided as follows:
“That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the
following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the
President shall be satisfied that the Government of any country
producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw
and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions
upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in
view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and
hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and
unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to
suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act
relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea,
and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall
deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be
levied, collected, and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and
hides, the product of or exported from such designated country” the
duties hereinafter set forth:
And whereas it has been established to my satisfaction, and I find the
fact to be, that the Government of Hayti does impose duties or other
exactions upon the agricultural and other products of the United States,
which in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses, coffee,
tea, and hides into the United States, in accordance with the provisions
of said act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable:
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of said
act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare and
proclaim that the provisions of said act relating to the free
introduction of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, the production
of Hayti, shall be suspended from and after this fifteenth day of March,
1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and
exactions are removed by Hayti and public notice of that fact given by
the President of the United States, and I do hereby proclaim that on and
after this fifteenth day of March, 1892, there will be levied,
collected, and paid upon sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, the
product of or exported from Hayti, during such suspension, duties as
provided by said act as follows:
All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch standard in color shall pay
duty on their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:
All sugars not above number thirteen Dutch standard in color, all tank
bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated
melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope
not above seventy-five degrees, seven-tenths of one cent per pound; and
for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the
polariscopic test, two-hundredths of one cent per pound additional.
All sugars above number thirteen Dutch standard in color shall be
classified by the Dutch standard of color, and pay duty as follows,
namely: All sugar above number thirteen and not above number sixteen
Dutch standard of color, one and three-eighths cents per pound.
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All sugar above number sixteen and not above number twenty Dutch standard
of color, one and five-eighths cents per pound.
All sugars above number twenty Dutch standard of color, two cents per
pound.
Molasses testing above fifty-six degrees, four cents per gallon.
Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic
test.
On coffee, three cents per pound.
On tea, ten cents per pound.
Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled, Angora goatskin,
raw, without the wool, unmanufactured, asses’ skins, raw or
unmanufactured, and skins, except sheepskins, with the wool on, one and
one-half cents per pound.
In witness 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 fifteenth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
sixteenth.
[
seal.]
Benj. Harrison
By the President:
William F.
Wharton,
Acting Secretary of
State.
