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Show THE CUBAN TREAH : AND. WHAT THE ; j: MEASURE PROVIDES j WASHINGTON, March 20. The Cuban Cu-ban treaty ratified by the -Senate was negotiated in Havana December 11, 1902, between Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, representing repre-senting the United States, and Carlos de Zaldo and Jose M. Garcia, Montes, representing Cuba. The United States Senate made several amendments to the document. As ratified by the Senate yesterday it provides that all merchandise produced by either country which now enters the othor duty free shall continue free of import duties. All other Cuban products pro-ducts imported into the United States shall enter at a reduction of 20 per cent from the rate of duty imposed by the United States on such articles of merchandise. mer-chandise. All Imports into Cuba from the United States not entitled to free entry shall be given a reduction of 20 per cent provided they do not fall within with-in the hereafter named clauses to which a greater reduction in duty is made. Entitled to Reduction. Schedule A provides that the following follow-ing articles shall be entitled to 25 per cent reduction from the regular tariff: Machinery and apparatus of copper or Its alloys enter as the component of chief value; cast Iron, wrought iron and steel, and manufactures thereof; articles arti-cles of crystal and glass, except window glass; ships and water-borne vessels of all kinds, of iron or steel; whiskies and brandies; fish, salted, pickled, smoked or marine ted; fish or shellfish preserved in oil or otherwise in tins; articles of pottery or. earthenware now classified under paragraphs 21 and 22 of the customs cus-toms tariff of the Republic of Cuba. Thirty Per Cent Off. Schedule B gives a reduction of 30 per cent on the following articles: Butter, the flour of wheat, corn, the flour of corn or cornmeal. chemical and pharmaceutical products and simple drugs, malt liquors In bottles, nonalcoholic nonalco-holic beverages,-cider, mineral waters." colors and dyes, window glass, complete or partly made up of articles of hemp, flax, pita. Jute, hennequin. ramie and other vegetable fibers now classified under un-der the paragraphs of group 2, class V of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba: musical Instruments, writing and printing paper, except for newspapers, newspa-pers, cotton and manufactures thereof except knitted goods, all articles of cutlery, cut-lery, boots, shoes and slippers, now classified clas-sified under paragraphs 197 and 198 of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba; gold and silver plated ware, drawings. photographs. engravings, lithographs, cromollthographs, oleographs, oleo-graphs, etc, printed from stone, zinc aluminum, or other material, used as labels, flaps, bands and wrappers for tobacco or other purposes, and all the ether papers (except paper for cigarettes and excepting maps and charts), pasteboard paste-board and manufactures thereof now classified under paragraphs 157 and 164 Inclusive of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba: common or ordinary soaps, now classified under paragraphs 105, letters A and B of the customs tariff tar-iff of the Republic of Cuba; vegetables, pickled or preserved in any manner; all wines except those now classified under paragraph , 279 of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba. Forty Per Cent Off. Schedule C gives a reduction of 40 per cent under the following: "Manufactures of cotton and all man-factures man-factures of cotton not Included In the preceding schedule's; cheese, fruits, preserved; pre-served; paper pulp; perfumery and essence, es-sence, articles of pottery and earthenware earthen-ware now classified under paragraph 20 of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba; porcelain, soaps, other than common, now classified under paragraph para-graph 105 of the customs tariff of the Republic of Cuba; umbrellas and parts, glucose, watches, wool and manufactures manufac-tures thereof, silk and manufactures thereof, rice and cattle. Sugar and Tobacco. It is f peciflf-ally agreed that tobacco In any form for use shall not be given any concession or rebate of duty when imported Into Cuba. Both countries agree that the rates of duty granted during the life of the treaty shall be preferential as respects like imports from other countries. It Is specifically provided that, while the treaty is in force, no Cuban sugars shall be admitted ad-mitted into the United States at a preater reduction than 20 per cent reduction re-duction from the present tariff, and that no sugar produced by any other country coun-try than Cuba shall be admitted Into the United States by treaty, while the new treaty is in force, at a lower rate of duty than that imposed by existing law. |