Sugar: proposal to adhere to the Brussels Convention

[Extracts from the International Convention2 Relative to Bounties on Sugar, Signed at Brussels March 5, 1902, by Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden.]3

Article III. The high contracting parties bind themselves to limit the surtax (difference between the rate of duty or taxation on foreign [Page 101] sugars and that on domestic sugars) to a maximum of 6 francs per 100 kilograms for refined sugar and on sugars that may be classed as refined, and to 5.50 francs for other sugars * * *.

Article V. The high contracting parties engage reciprocally to admit at the lowest of their import rates, sugars imported from and produced in the contracting States or such of their colonies or possessions as do not grant bounties * * *.

[Article VIII of Commercial Convention between the United States and Cuba (reciprocity treaty). Concluded December 11, 1902; proclaimed December 17, 1903.]1

Article VIII. The rates of duty herein granted by the United States to the Republic of Cuba are and shall continue during the term of this convention preferential in respect to all like imports from other countries, and in return for said preferential rates of duty granted to the Republic of Cuba by the United States it is agreed that the concession herein granted on the part of the said Republic of Cuba to the products of the United States shall likewise be, and shall continue, during the term of this convention, preferential in respect to all like imports from other countries: Provided, That while this convention is in force, no sugar imported from the Republic of Cuba, and being the product of the soil or industry of the Republic of Cuba, shall be admitted into the United States at a reduction of duty greater than 20 per centum of the rates of duty thereon as provided by the tariff act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, and no sugar, the product of any other foreign country, shall be admitted by treaty or convention into the United States while this convention is in force at a lower rate of duty than that provided by the tariff act of the United States approved July 24, 1897.