BENJ. HARRISON.
By the President:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved October 1, 1890, entitled "An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports and for other purposes," the attention of the Government of the German Empire was called to the action of the Congress of the United States of America, with a view to secure reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3 to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America; and
Whereas the chargé d'affaires of the German Empire at Washington has communicated to the special plenipotentiary of the United States the fact that, in view of the act of Congress above cited, the German Imperial Government has by due legal enactment authorized the admission, from and after February 1, 1892, into the German Empire of the articles or merchandise the product of the United States of America named in the following schedule, on the terms stated therein:
Schedules of articles to be admitted into Germany.
| Articles. | Rate of duty per 100 kilograms. Marks. |
|---|---|
| 1. Bran; malted germs | Free. |
| 2. Flax, raw, dried, broken, or hatcheled; also refuse portions | Free. |
| 3. Wheat | 3.50 |
| 4. Rye | 3.50 |
| 5. Oats | 2.80 |
| 6. Buckwheat | 2.00 |
| 7. Pulse | 1.50 |
| 8. Other kinds of grain not specially mentioned | 1.00 |
| 9. Barley | 2.00 |
| 10. Rape seed, turnip seed, poppy, sesame, peanuts, and other oleaginous products not specially mentioned | 2.00 |
| 11. Maize (Indian corn) | 1.60 |
| 12. Malt (malted barley) | 3.60 |
| 13. Anise, coriander, fennel, and caraway seed | 3.00 |
| 14. Agricultural productions not otherwise designated | Free. |
| 15. Horsehair, raw, hatcheled, boiled, dyed, also laid in the form of tresses and spun; bristles; raw bed feathers | Free. |
| 16. Bed feathers, cleaned and prepared | Free. |
| 17. Hides and skins, raw (green, salted, limed, dried), and stripped of the hair for the manufacture of leather | Free. |
| 18. Charcoal | Free. |
| 19. Bark of wood and tan bark | Free. |
| 20. Lumber and timber: | |
| (a) Raw or merely roughhewn with ax or saw, with or without bark; oaken barrel staves | 0.20 |
| (b) Marked in the direction of the longitudinal axis, or prepared or cut otherwise than by roughhewing; barrel staves not included under (a); unpeeled osiers and hoops; hubs, fellies, and spokes | 0.30 |
| (c) Sawed in the direction of the longitudinal axis; unplaned boards; sawed cantle woods and other articles sawn or hewn | 0.80 |
| 21. Wood in cut veneering; unglued, unstained parts of floors | 5.00 |
| 22. Hops; also hop meal[29] | 14.00 |
| 23. Butter; also artificial butter | 17.00 |
| 24. Meat, slaughtered, fresh, with the exception of pork | 15.00 |
| 25. Pork, slaughtered, fresh, and dressed meat, with the exception of bacon, fresh or prepared | 17.00 |
| 26. Game of all kinds (not alive) | 20.00 |
| 27. Cheese, except Strecchino, Gorgonzola, and Parmesan | 20.00 |
| 28. Fruit, seeds, berries, leaves, flowers, mushrooms, vegetables, dried, baked, pulverized, only boiled down or salted—all these products so far as they are not included under other numbers of the tariff; juices of fruits, berries, and turnips, preserved without sugar, to be eaten; dry nuts | 4.00 |
| 39. Mill products of grain and pulse, to wit, ground or shelled grains, peeled barley, groats, grits, flour, common cakes (bakers' products) | 7.30 |
| 30. Residue, solid, from the manufacture of fat oils, also ground | Free. |
| 31. Goose grease and other greasy fats, such as oleomargarine, sperfett (a mixture of stearic fats with oil), beef marrow | 10.00 |
| 32. Live animals and animal products not mentioned elsewhere; also beehives with live bees | Free. |
| 33. Horses (remarks) | each 20.00 |
| (a) Horses up to 2 years old | do 10.00 |
| (b) Colts following their dams | Free. |
| 34. Bulls and cows | 9.00 |
| 35. Oxen | 25.50 |
| 36. Calves less than 6 weeks old | 3.00 |
| 37. Hogs | 5.00 |
| 38. Pigs weighing less than 10 kilograms | 1.00 |
| 39. Sheep | 1.00 |
| 40. Lambs | 0.50 |
| 41. Wool, including animal hair not mentioned elsewhere, as well as stuffs made thereof: | |
| (a) Wool, raw, dyed, ground; also hair, raw, hatcheled, boiled, dyed; also curled | Free. |
And whereas the special plenipotentiary of the United States has, by my direction, given assurance to the chargé d'affaires of the German Empire at Washington that this action of the Government of the German Empire in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Germany is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said act:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the above-stated modifications of the tariff laws of the German Empire to be made public for the information of the citizens of the United States of America.