Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 836/53–54.

The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Lorillard.

Department of State,
Washington, February 21, 1907.

No. 49.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 96, of the 14th ultimo, embodying telegraphic correspondence in connection the complaint of Henry Forster & Co., of Pernambuco, and transmitting a copy of a decree of January 10, 1907, continuing, from January 1, 1907, the 20 per cent preferential reduction on certain American goods.

Your action, taken on the complaint of Messrs. Forster & Co., is approved by the department, and you will ask the return to the importers of any excess in duties above the preferential rates that may be brought to your attention as having been collected in January on shipments of American products entitled to preferential treatment.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.