Office of the Historian

611.1731/181: Telegram

The Minister in Nicaragua (Lane) to the Secretary of State

Managua, March 7, 1936—10 p.m.
[Received March 8—1:35 a.m.]

59. On the basis the Department’s 29 in which was given the number of concessions and bindings believed to be carried in Schedule 1 of Guatemalan and Costa Rican agreements, I suggested this morning [Page 813] to Castro that he submit a list based on as many reductions as possible. His revised counter-proposals which supersede those contained in my 50 and 51 are transmitted in my 58. These counter-proposals were submitted on the following conditions:

(1)
that some concession be granted on sugar either by means of quota or otherwise;
(2)
that 25 per cent French conventional discount is not to be deducted from items 799, 800, 987, 1042, and 1078.
(3)
that through exchange of notes or otherwise Nicaragua should receive through the entire life of the Nicaraguan agreement the benefit of concessions which may have been granted in Schedule 2 with other countries.

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Lane