File No. 8344.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Swiss Minister.
Washington, April 30, 1909.
Sir: The Congress of the United States has effectively declared its intention to supersede the present customs-tariff law of the United States by a new law which is now under discussion and which will probably be enacted within a few weeks.
One of the necessary results of this change will be that the commercial agreements made by the President under the authority of the act of July 24, 1897, will no longer be applicable to the conditions which will exist under the new law. The Government of the United States accordingly finds it necessary to give notice of the intention to terminate all of these agreements.
By direction of the President I have, therefore, the honor to give through you to the Government of the Swiss Confederation formal notice on behalf of the United States of the intended revocation of the President’s proclamation of January 1, 1906. Further communication on this subject will be made after the passage of legislative measures affecting the bases on which this proclamation was issued.
Accept, etc.,