cultural and other products of the United States
which, in view of the free introduction of such sugars, molasses,
coffee, tea, and hides into the United States, in accordance with the
provisions of said act, I deem to be reciprocally unequal and
unreasonable:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States
of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of
said act, by which it is made my duty to take action, do hereby declare
and proclaim that the provisions of said act relating to the free
introduction of sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the production
of Venezuela shall be suspended from and after this 15th day of March,
1892, and until such time as said unequal and unreasonable duties and
exactions are removed by Venezuela and public notice of that fact given
by the President of the United States; and I do hereby proclaim that on
and after this 15th day of March, 1892, there will be levied, collected,
and paid upon sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides the product of or
exported from Venezuela during such suspension duties as provided by
said act, as follows:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on
their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:

All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms,
sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada,
concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not
above 75 deg., seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional
degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test
two-hundredths of 1 cent per pound additional.

All sugars above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall be classified
by the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely:

All sugar above No. 13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard of color,
1-3/8 cents per pound.

All sugar above No. 16 and not above No. 20 Dutch standard of color,
1-5/8 cents per pound.

All sugars above No. 20 Dutch standard of color, 2 cents per pound.

Molasses testing above 56 deg., 4 cents per gallon.

Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.

On coffee, 3 cents per pound.

On tea, 10 cents per pound.

Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted, or pickled; Angora-goat
skins, raw, without the wool, unmanufactured; asses' sk