File No. 836/107–109.
Ambassador Dudley to the Secretary of State.
Petropolis, February 19, 1908.
Sir: Referring to my No. 123, of the 28th ultimo,1 I have the honor to report that yesterday, in conversation with the Brazilian minister of finance, after referring to the refusal to give retroactive [Page 51] operation to the decree of the 11th instant, which puts into effect the legislative authorization to grant to certain imports of American origin a tariff reduction of 20 per cent during the calendar year 1908, I called his attention to the Government’s course pursued last year. The minister assured me that upon direct petition to him by any importer for a refund of this 20 per cent, paid by him into a Brazilian customshouse, he would cause the amount to be returned.
I have, etc.,
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