611.3331/148: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Uruguay (Dawson)
11. Your despatch No. 39, March 4, 1938.22 Since it is not the practice of the Department to seek exclusive preferential facilities of any nature for American trade, it does not believe that you should take any action along the line indicated in your despatch under reference. There is also a strong possibility that the particular type of action you suggest would be held by the Treasury Department to be a bounty or grant within the meaning of Section 303 of the Tariff Act of 1930,23 and to necessitate the imposition of equivalent countervailing duties, such as were imposed upon German products as a result of roughly comparable practices.