File No. 2338/18.
The Acting Secretary of
State to Ambassador White.
Department of State,
Washington, July 11,
1907.
No. 66.]
Sir: Referring to previous correspondence
relative to the French regulations affecting the importation of American
salted meats, I
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have to
inclose herewith copy of report by Consul-General Skinner, of Marseille,
dated June 21, 1907,a and
of letter from the firm of Armour & Co., of Chicago, Ill., dated the
5th instant, alleging that the French, minister of Agriculture has
recently stated that he had not been officially notified by the United
States Government regarding the operation of the new inspection law of
June 30, 1906, and intimated that when so formally advised and satisfied
that the new form of inspection would offer the same or superior
guarantees to the old there should be no further objection to the
admission of American pork products when accompanied by the new
“interstate” certificate.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
Armour & Co. to
the Secretary of State.
Armour & Co.,
Chicago,
Ill, July 5,
1907.
Sir: We have just received advice from our
Mr. William C. Evans informing us that when in Paris in company with
the delegates of the syndicates of provision dealers of Paris,
Havre, Bordeaux, and Marseille he visited the French minister of
agriculture, who informed them that he had not been officially
notified by the United States Government regarding the operation of
the new inspection law of June 30, 1906.
He further informed them that, as soon as he was officially and
formally advised and satisfied by the United States Government that
the new form of inspection would offer the same or superior
guarantees to the old, there should be no further obstacle to the
entree of American pork products under the new “interstate”
certificate.
Will you kindly advise us if the French Government has withdrawn its
demand that all American pork products be accompanied by a
certificate of microscopic inspection before being admitted into
France?
Thanking you in anticipation, we are, sir, yours respectfully,
Armour & Co.
J. W. S. Reid.
