611.1531/12: Telegram

The Minister in Honduras (Lay) to the Secretary of State

66. My telegram No. 65 of August 16. Please mail by next pouch all data concerning preferential tariff concessions awarded by Brazil some years ago on several United States products,4 why these concessions were withdrawn, and if reinstatement these or others being considered. Might use some of these data as background since United States purchases about same proportion total exports Honduran bananas as coffee from Brazil.

Lay