y of the Spanish islands of Cuba and Puerto
Rico the articles or merchandise named in the following transitory
schedule, 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:
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 c
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