Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Beaupré.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 14, 1905.

(Mr. Loomis informs Mr. Beaupré that, according to telegraphic advices from leading manufacturers of agricultural implements, the Argentine Government proposes to impose a prohibitory tariff upon all repair parts of agricultural machinery, and as the imposition of such tariff will inflict great loss upon an important American industry and will work great harm instructs him to represent to the Argentine Government the injustice of applying a higher rate of duty to the necessary integral parts of the machine than to the machine itself and to keep the Department informed.)