Whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Brazil at Washington has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in due reciprocity for and in consideration of the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said act, the Government of Brazil has by legal enactment authorized the admission, from and after April 1, 1891, into all the established ports of entry of Brazil, free of all duty, whether national, state, or municipal, of the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product and manufacture of the United States of America: 

  1.—­SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED FREE INTO BRAZIL.

  Wheat. 
  Wheat flour. 
  Corn or maize and the manufactures thereof, including 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;