COMMERCIAL CONVENTIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING COMMERCIAL CONVENTIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN FOR BARBADOS, BERMUDA, BRITISH GUIANA, JAMAICA, AND TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, SIGNED IN JUNE AND JULY, 1899. DECEMBER 11, 1899.-Injunction of secrecy removed, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. To the Senate: I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate, five commercial conventions, signed by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States and Great Britain, as follows: For the colony of Barbados, signed June 16, 1899. For the colony of British Guiana, signed July 18, 1899. For the colony of Turks and Caicos islands, signed July 21, 1899. For the colony of Jamaica, signed July 22, 1899. For the colony of Bermuda, signed July 24, 1899. These conventions were signed on the part of the United States by virtue of the authority conferred by section 4 of the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States," approved July 24, 1897. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, December 6, 1899. The PRESIDENT: The undersigned, Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to their transmission to the Senate to receive the advice and consent of that body to their ratification, commercial conventions signed by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States and Great Britain, under the authority conferred by section 4 of the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States," approved July 24, 1897, as follows: For the colony of Barbados, signed June 16, 1899. For the colony of British Guiana, signed July 18, 1899. For the colony of Turks and Caicos islands, signed July 21, 1899. For the colony of Bermuda, signed July 24, 1899. Respectfully submitted. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, JOHN HAY. Washington, December 5, 1899. 1 23 2 CONVENTION FOR BARBADOS. The President of the United States of America and Her Majesty 3 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 4 animated by a common desire to improve the conditions of trade 5 between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of 6 Barbados have appointed for that purpose their respective Pleni7 potentiaries, namely: 8 The President of the United States of America, Honorable John 9 A. Kasson, Special Commissioner Plenipotentiary; and Her Brit10 annic Majesty, Reginald Tower, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé 11 d'Affaires at Washington, who, in consideration of and in compen12 sation for the respective concessions and engagements made by 13 each as hereinafter recited, have agreed and do hereby agree upon 14 the following articles for the regulation and government of the 15 reciprocal trade aforesaid: 16 17 ARTICLE I. During the term of this Convention the hereinafter designated 18 articles of merchandise being the product of the soil or industry 19 of the United States imported into the said Colony of Barbados 20 and the hereinafter designated articles of merchandise, the product 21 of the soil or industry of said Colony imported into the United " 22 States, shall be admitted upon the conditions set forth in the 23 following schedule, namely: 24 25 SCHEDULE. The following articles the product of the soil or industry of 26 Barbados imported into the United States shall be admitted at a 27 reduction of twelve and one half per centum of the rates of duty thereon as provided by the Tariff Act of the United States approved 29 July 24, 1897, viz: 30 Cane sugars and molasses. 31 Fruit, fresh. 32 Vegetables, fresh. 33 Asphalt or manjack. 34 The following articles the product of the soil or industry of the 35 United States shall be admitted into the said Colony free of duty: 36 1. Bran; Pollard; 55 The following articles the product of the soil or industry of the 56 United States shall be admitted at a rate of duty not exceeding 57 five per centum on value: 58 20. Fruits and vegetables, fresh, dried, canned or preserved; 59 21. Fish, tinned or canned; 60 22. Clothing and wearing apparel made of cotton; 61 23. Earthen and glass ware; 65 27. Wooden hoops; 66 The following articles the product of the soil or industry of the 67 United States shall be admitted at rates of duty not exceeding 68 the following: 69 28. Bread and biscuits, not fancy or in Tin; $0.12 per 100 lbs. 70 29. Cheese; 0.96 per 100 lbs. 71 30. Flour of wheat; 0.60 per bbl. 72 31. Lard and its compounds and substitutes; 0.48 per 100 lbs. 73 32. Meats-ham, bacon, tongues, canned or preserved meat, 0.60 74 75 per 100 lbs. Beef or pork, salted or pickled; 0.36 per 200 lbs. 76 33. Oil meal and cake; 0.12 per 100 lbs. 77 34. Oleomargarine; 0.24 per 100 lbs. 78 35. Butter; 0.36 per 100 lbs. 85 38. Lumber-yellow or pitch pine; 1.00 per M. feet. 86 39. Tobacco, unmanufactured in packages of not less than 50 lbs. 89 It is further understood that the said Colony will not during the 90 term of this Convention increase its duties upon oats, coal or 91 shingles being products of the United States; but upon other 92 dutiable merchandise imported and not specially provided for in 93 this Convention the Colony reserves the right to increase the 94 duties not exceeding fifty per centum thereof without any discrimi95 nation thereby against exports of the United States; and that for 96 the same period such articles as are admitted free of duty in the 97 said Colony shall so remain, so far as the same are products of the 98 United States. It is equally understood that articles the product 99 of the soil or industry of said Colony which are by the Tariff Act |