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United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable,
he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by
proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the
free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the
production of such country for such time as he shall deem just; and in
such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected,
and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or
exported from such designated country--

the duties hereinafter set forth; and

Whereas it has been established to my satisfaction and I find the fact
to be that the Government of Colombia does impose duties or other
exactions upon the agricultural and other products of the United States
which, in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses,
coffee, tea, and hides into the United States, in accordance with the
provisions of said act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and
unreasonable:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of said
act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare
and proclaim that the provisions of said act relating to the free
introduction of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the production
of Colombia shall be suspended from and after this 15th day of March,
1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and
exactions are removed by Colombia and public notice of that fact given
by the President of the United States; and I do hereby proclaim that on
and after this 15th day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected,
and paid upon sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or
exported from Colombia during such suspension duties as provided by said
act, as follows:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on
their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms,
sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada,
concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not
above 75 deg., seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional
degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test
two-hundredths of 1 cent per pound additional.

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color sh