TRANSITORY SCHEDULE.
Products or manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico free of duties:
1. Meats, in brine, salted
or smoked, bacon, hams, and meats preserved
in cans, in lard
or by extraction of air, jerked beef excepted.
2. Lard.
3. Tallow and other animal greases, melted or crude, unmanufactured.
4. Fish and shellfish, live,
fresh, dried, in brine, smoked, pickled,
oysters and salmon
in cans.
5. Oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat, and flour of these cereals.
6. Starch, maizena, and other
alimentary products of corn, except corn
meal.
7. Cotton seed, oil and meal cake of said seed for cattle.
8. Hay, straw for forage, and bran.
9. Fruits, fresh, dried, and preserved, except raisins.
10. Vegetables and garden products, fresh and dried.
11. Resin of pine, tar, pitch, and turpentine.
12. Woods of all kinds, in trunks
or logs, joists, rafters, planks,
beams, boards,
round or cylindric masts, although cut, planed, and
tongued and grooved,
including flooring.
13. Woods for cooperage, including staves, headings, and wooden hoops.
14. Wooden boxes, mounted or unmounted, except of cedar.
15. Woods, ordinary, manufactured
into doors, frames, windows, and
shutters, without
paint or varnish, and wooden houses, unmounted,
without paint
or varnish.
16. Wagons and carts for ordinary roads and agriculture.
17. Sewing machines.
18. Petroleum, raw or unrefined,
according to the classification fixed
in the existing
orders for the importation of this article in said
islands.
19. Coal, mineral.
20. Ice.
Products or manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico on payment of the duties
stated:
21. Corn or maize, 25 cents per 100 kilograms.
22. Corn meal, 25 cents per 100 kilograms.
23. Wheat, from January 1, 1892, 30 cents per 100 kilograms.
24. Wheat flour, from January 1, 1892, $1 per 100 kilograms.
Products or manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba
and Puerto Rico at a reduction of duty
of 25 per cent:
25. Butter and cheese.
26. Petroleum, refined.
27. Boots and shoes in whole or in part of leather or skins.
And whereas the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain in Washington has further communicated to the Secretary of State that the Government of Spain will in like manner and as a definitive arrangement admit, from and after July 1, 1892, into all the established ports of, entry of the Spanish islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico the articles or merchandise named in the following schedules A, B, C, and D, on the terms stated therein, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States and proceed directly from the ports of said States: