624.11241/8
The Minister in Bolivia (Feely) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 23, 1933.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s instruction No. 153, dated November 8, 1932 (File No. 624.11241/7), wherein it was stated that the Treasury Department has no objection to granting free entry to Bolivian consular officers stationed in the United States and the privilege of importing at any time articles for their personal use free of duty, on the understanding that no article the importation of which is prohibited by the laws of the United States shall be imported by them.
In accordance with the instructions contained in the instruction under acknowledgment, this Legation has taken the matter up with the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A reply, dated December 20, 1932, has now been received from the Bolivian Foreign Office in which the arrangement as suggested in the Department’s instruction is accepted without reservation. A copy of this reply in translation and in the original Spanish is enclosed herewith.12 The Legation today addressed a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating that a despatch was being addressed to the Department of State regarding Bolivia’s acceptance of the suggested arrangement in order that the United States Department of the Treasury may be advised thereof without delay, to the end that from this time on personal effects imported by Bolivian consular officers and their families in the United States may be admitted free of duties. It was also stated in this Legation’s [Page 11] note to the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Chief of this Mission would henceforth countersign requests for customs liberations addressed to the Ministry by the Consul of the United States in this city, and that such countersignature would have the meaning that Bolivian consular officers in the United States would enjoy reciprocal custom courtesies, within the limitations set forth in the Department’s instruction under acknowledgment.
Respectfully yours,
Third Secretary of Legation
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