612.113/276: Telegram

The Ambassador in Mexico (Messersmith) to the Secretary of State

246. The Minister of Hacienda informs me that the President of Mexico signed today a decree annulling definitely the tariff increases in some 600 to 700 items according to a decree published in the latter part of December of last year.72 Full report follows by mail.

Messersmith
  1. The Decree signed February 17, 1944, was published in the Diario Oficial on March 2, and thus annulled the Decree of December 18, 1943, before the latter was put into operation (612.113/278).