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58Tn CONGRESS,              SE-NATE.                   DOCUMENT
   1st Session.                                           No. 2.


            HEARINGS ON CUBAN RECIPROCITY.

STATEMENTS OF GEN. T. H. BLISS, A. BIYUR, AND RICHARD A.
  BACHIA BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ON
  THE RECIPROCITY TREATY WITH CUBA.

NOVEMBER 11, 1903.-Injunction of secrecy removed and ordered to be printed as a
                             document.

                                      FRIDAY, December 19, 1902.
STATEMENT OF GENERAL BLISS BEFORE SENATOR CULLOM, AS
  A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELA-
  TIONS.
  Mr. CULLoM. General Bliss, I requested you to come here to-day in
order that you might exlain the various provisions of the reciprocity
treaty with Cuba, which you recently negotiated on behalf of the
United States.
  General BLISS. Before replying to such detailed questions as you
may ask, I would like to call your attention to the references which
appear in Schedules A, B, and C of Article IV to specific paragraphs
of the existing Cuban tariff law. In some cases-and they happened
to be rather important ones-it was difficult to define exactly by name
all the varieties of a given class of articles to which it was agreed that
a certain concession should apply.
  In such cases it seemed to me safer, as avoiding future differences
of opinion at the custom-houses, to refer to them as the articles  now
classified under paragraph - of the customs tariff of the Republic of
Cuba. That classification is a matter of record and perfectly well
known to all interested parties, and so for the purposes of this treaty
these classifications remain fixed, no matter wbether new tariffs are
made or not.
  I may add, further, that I was instructed to negotiate on the basis
of a twenty per centum concession on the part of the United States
and that, rather than consider any possible increase in this proposed
concession, I should diminish the concessions asked by the United
States from Cuba.
  Mr. CULLOM. Article 1 of the treaty provides:
  Durin the term of this convention, all articles of merchandise being the product
of the soil or industry of the United States which are now imported into the Republic
of Cuba free of duty, and all articles of merchandise being the product of the soil or
industry of the Republic of Cuba which are now imported into the United States
free of duty, shall continue to be so admitted by the respective countries free of
duty.
  What do we now get from Cuba free of duty?
  General BLISS. That article was agreed upon simply to give us a
starting point, a basis for our further discussions as to the concessions
that could be fairly asked on each side.  Here is a statement, for
which I am indebted to the courtesy of the Bureau of Statistics of the
Treasury Department, of the articles imported into the United States
from Cuba, frec of duty, during the year ending June 30, 1902:
     S D-58-1-Vol 2-1

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