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

Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Buenos Aires , September 15, 1905 .

(Mr. Beaupré quotes the rather ambiguous clause of the tariff bill passed by the House and now before the Senate, which declares agricultural machinery free of duty, and which reads as follows:

Repair pieces, by which are to be understood such as form an integral part of the machines for which they are intended, shall enjoy the benefits accorded by this law only when they are imported with the machines.

From which it appears that repairs not accompanying the machines of which they are an integral part shall pay ad valorem duty of 25 per cent.)