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 charge 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