luding corn meal and
starch.
Rye, rye flour, buckwheat, buckwheat flour, and barley.
Potatoes, beans, and pease.
Hay and oats.
Pork, salted, including pickled pork and bacon, except hams.
Fish, salted, dried, or pickled.
Cotton-seed oil.
Coal, anthracite and bituminous.
Rosin, tar, pitch, and turpentine.
Agricultural tools, implements, and machinery.
Mining and mechanical tools, implements, and machinery, including
stationary and portable engines and all machinery for manufacturing
and industrial purposes, except sewing machines.
Instruments and books for the arts and sciences.
Railway construction material and equipment.

And that the Government of Brazil has by legal enactment further
authorized the admission into all the established ports of entry of
Brazil, with a reduction of 25 per cent of the duty designated on the
respective article in the tariff now in force or which may hereafter
be adopted in the United States of Brazil, whether national, state,
or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following
schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the
United States of America:

2.--SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED INTO BRAZIL, WITH A REDUCTION
OF DUTY OF 25 PER CENT.

Lard and substitutes therefor.
Bacon hams.
Butter and cheese.
Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables.
Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing.
Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the
foregoing free schedule.
Leather and the manufactures thereof, except boots and shoes.
Lumber, timber, and the manufactures of wood, including cooperage,
furniture of all kinds, wagons, carts, and carriages.
Manufactures of rubber.

And that the Government of Brazil has further provided that the laws
and regulations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the
declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing schedules
are the product or manufacture of the United States of America shall
place no undue restrictions on the importer nor impose any additional
charges or fees therefor on the articles imported;

And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance
to the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Brazil at
Washington that this action of the Government of Brazil in granting
exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the U