Office of the Historian

611.2531/615a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Bowers)

Washington, January 4, 1940—5 p.m.

4. The following improved Schedule II2 offers, represented by changes in or additions to the list of December 9, were communicated to the Chilean Embassy today in reply to notes of December 15 and 183 requesting improvements:

52, spermaceti wax, 2½ cents pound; 742, grapes, excluding hothouse grapes, 20 cents cubic foot March 1 to June 30, inclusive; 767, lentils, ⅓ cent pound; 769, chickpeas, .875 cent pound on sizes previously mentioned; 770, garlic, 1 cent pound February 1 to May 31, inclusive; and free binding on: 1611, argols, et cetera; 1611, calcium tartrate, crude; 1681, sheep and lamb furs and fur skins, undressed, excluding caracul and Persian lamb; 1765, raw sheep and lamb skins, with the wool on, dry or green salted.

The accompanying note to the Embassy4 mentions our desire to meet the Chilean position, our hope that the additional concessions will permit early conclusion of the negotiations and the fact that we do not believe any further concessions are possible.

In accordance with the previous arrangement, please convey the foregoing to the appropriate officials, mentioning at the same time our desire to learn as soon as possible their definitive position on the general provisions and our Schedule I5 requests.

The additional offers presented today meet substantially all Chilean requests except on onions and beans.

Hull
  1. Schedule of articles of Chilean origin upon which the United States was to grant tariff concessions.↩
  2. See Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. v, pp. 433 and 435, respectively.↩
  3. Not printed.↩
  4. Schedule of articles of American origin upon which Chile was to grant tariff concessions.↩