Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 836/123.

The Brazilian Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

Brazilian Embassy,
Washington, January 22, 1909.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to bring to your knowledge that, according to a communication just received from the Brazilian Government, by a decree No. 7283, of the 14th of January instant, the ministry of finance renewed for the present fiscal year the reduction of 20 per cent previously granted to the American flour and to other articles imported in Brazil from the United States of America.

I avail, etc,

Joaquim Nabuco.