Haebler & Co. to Mr. Sherman.
Sir: Referring to our letter of March 26 on the subject of shipments of American evaporated cores and skins to Germany, we take the liberty to inform you that the United States ambassador at Berlin, Hon. Andrew D. White, to whom we addressed ourselves for relief, has cabled us that the German Government has just decreed new regulations for examining the article in question which in their form and [Page 329] stringency are practically tantamount to a complete prohibition of its importation.
As there is no reason for such a step, cores and skins being free from infection through the process of evaporating, we respectfully submit that our Government enter an emphatic and vigorous protest against this arbitrary proceeding, which entails heavy losses on American exporters for the time being, and injures permanently an important American industry.
Your obedient servants,