Office of the Historian

693.003/808: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Mayer)

Washington, March 8, 1928—6 p.m.

87. Your 142, March 6, 5 p.m.

1.
Department is prepared to approve 5 per cent ad valorem basis for disputed items. Commerce Department concurs.
2.
Department assumes duty paying value will be determined as provided in Rule 1 attached to the Revised Import Tariff of 1922.75 If otherwise inform Department.
Kellogg
  1. See The China Year Book, 1923, pp. 525, 544.↩