Señor Bolet Peraza to Mr. Blaine.
Washington, January 11, 1892. (Received January 11.)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of the 7th instant, wherein you are pleased to reiterate your mention of the provisions contained in the tariff law of October 1, 1890 (section 3), whereby the President of the United States was authorized to conclude with countries that produce sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides treaties of reciprocity granting exemption from duties to those articles when imported into the United States. At the same time your excellency was pleased to notify me, in order that I might inform my Government, that the President of the United States will, on the 15th day of March next, issue the proclamation referred to in the aforesaid third section of the tariff law, declaring subject to [Page 501] import duties the aforesaid articles from countries which at that date shall not have concluded any reciprocity treaty with the United States. According to the desire expressed by your excellency I have transmitted to my Government the contents of the note to which I have the honor to refer, so that it may be filed among the papers relative to the negotiations on the subject which are going on at Caracas with the representative of the United States.
With sentiments, etc.,