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The Consul at Mexico City (Galbraith) to the Secretary of State
Reference is made to the following reports submitted by this Consulate General:
| Date | Title |
| January 19, 1938 | Extensive Changes in Mexican Import Duties.57 |
| January 27, 1938 | Extensive Changes in Mexican Import Duties: Translation of57 |
| January 27, 1938 | Effective Date of Recent Extensive Changes in Mexican Import Duties57 |
| September 21, 1938 | Changes in Mexico Import Tariff58 |
There is enclosed a translation of a Decree dated August 13, 1938,58 making extensive reductions in the Mexican import tariff. This Decree appeared in the Mexican federal Diario Oficial of August 22, 1938.
There are 200 classifications mentioned, the effect of the Decree being to return import duties to exactly what they were prior to the changes which took effect on January 21, 1938, as reported in the first three of the above-cited reports, with six exceptions. Of these six exceptions, one is a reduction: Fraction 7.56.92 “Printed books, not specified, with covers of cardboard, leather or cloth” formerly carried a duty of ten centavos per gross kilo but is now duty free. The other five exceptions are fractions which affect automobiles: Fraction 9.52.00 covering four cylinder automobiles was formerly 180 pesos per car and is now 250 pesos; Fraction 9.52.05 covering automobiles of more than eight cylinders was formerly 1,000 pesos per car and is now 2,000 pesos; and Fractions 9.52.11, 9.52.12, and 9.52.13 covering trucks with stake bodies, closed or unspecified bodies, and tank trucks were formerly 150 pesos per car and are now 300 pesos.