File No. 20437/105.
[Telegram.]
Berlin, July 1,
1910.
Bundesrat rendered decision June 29. Reduction of duty on excesses of quota shall be contingent on compliance with three conditions laid down in foreign office note of June 21, which are:
- First. In calculating the average expenditures, including the reduced duties that the purchaser has to pay for the salts the quantities not in excess of the quota of the seller and not burdened with the duty, must also be included.
- Second. The reduction can be applied only to quantities which the buyer can prove he is obliged to accept, and not to quantities respecting which he may exercise his option. (See Foreign office note of May 11.)
- Third. The buyer must petition for reduction of duty to be paid by seller and at the same time prove that he is not only bound to accept the goods but also to defray the duty.
Hill.