File No. 18643/15.
Ambassador Dudley
to the Secretary of State.
[Extract.]
American Embassy,
Petropolis, January 17,
1910.
No. 474.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith the
list1 communicated to
this Government, of articles of American production proposed for
preferential treatment. Of those articles the following,1 when imported into Brazil during
1910, have been granted a reduction of 20 per cent from the general
tariff rates by an executive decree of the 15th instant, a translation
of which may be found herewith.
The effect of the decree is to add to our preferential list, as it has
stood during the past few years, cement, dried fruits, alarm clocks,
desks, corsets, and furniture for schools.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure—Translation.]
Continues in force during the present year decree No. 6079 of June
30, 1906, including other articles when imported on and after this
date.
The President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil,
availing himself of the authorization contained in article 6 of law
No. 1144, of the 30th of December, 1903, continued in force by
article 13 of law No. 2210, of the 28th of December last, resolves
that decree No. 6079, of June 30, 1906, be observed during the
present year, there being added to the articles mentioned in it the
following: Cement, corsets, dried fruits, furniture for schools, and
desks; provided that the reduction in duties in reference to the
latter shall be given effect only when they are dispatched from this
time on.
Rio de
Janeiro, January 16, 1910, eighty-ninth year of the independence and
twenty-second of the Republic.
- Nilo Peçanha.
- Leopoldo de Bulhoes.
