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Imports
from U.S.
1939
(Customs Gold
Units)

10,884,419

2,774,721

Tinned plates, plain

generating and transmission,
such as dynamos, motors, trans-
formers, converters, etc., and
parts thereof:

-55 (a) Dynamos and motors not over
20 kilowatt capacity, and
transformers not over 200
kilo-volt-ampere capacity
and parts or accessories
thereof

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Cuba Of the concessions made by Cuba those of particular interest to the United States embrace 497 tariff classifications, plus an additional 21 tariff classifications on which continued duty-free importation on a non-preferential basis was assured. The trade coverage for 1939 on these 497 tariff items was approximately $70,000,000. An additional $4,000,000 in trade for 1939 is included in the 21 duty-free items which were bound, making a total coverage of $74,000,000 or 95 percent of total imports valued at $78,000,000 for the year 1939.

Supplementary concessions were made through provision by Cuba that imports classified under 492 of the 497 tariff items will be exempted from payment of the 20 percent emergency surtax on the duty established in 1941 and by an agreement that the Public Works Surtax on the duty shall not exceed 3 percent on 9 items at present subject to a Public Works Surtax of 10 percent. A moderate number of specific rates were increased, particularly in the textile schedule, but compensating reductions were granted on related products. Duties were reduced on 128 tariff items, and duties were increased on 19 tariff items. Bindings, including continuation of duty free treatment, accounted for 330 items. In addition, on 41 tariff items in the cotton end synthetic fiber fabrics schedules, the base rates were increased moderately, but notes were appended providing for improved treatment over that accorded at present on fabrics printed or dyed with stripes, squares or other designs which are the items of major interest to the United States.

Preferential tariff treatment for United States products was continued on the 497 tariff items included in a special United StatesCuba Preferential Schedule. In some instances, however, the absolute margin of preference was reduced.

Items on which concessions were made of interest to the United States are petroleum products, tires, radios, office machines, automobiles, cotton, lard, rice, wheat flour, potatoes, canned fruit and

onions.

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ricultural Products The present favorable rate for the United States on the important hog lard item was bound against increase. quota of 3,250,000 quintals was established on mulled and semi-bulled rice. It was agreed that this amount would be increased by the amount necessary to supply the difference between estimated Cuban production The United States rate within end estimated consumption requirements. the quota will be $1.85 per 100 kilograms, and the United States exquota rate will be no higher than $3.70 per 100 kilograms. In the event the Cuban Government decides to allocate the tariff quota by Countries, the allocation will be in proportion to the imports by countries in the 10 calendar years immediately preceding the first year in which such allocation is made. On wheat flour, the United States rate was reduced to $0.63 per 100 kilograms. The new rate will apply to all wheat flour imported from the United States regardless of the origin of the wheat used therein, whereas wheat flour milled entirely from wheat grown in the United States has been dutiable at a rate of $0.78 per 100 kilograms and wheat flour milled in the United States containing imported wheat has been dutiable at the rate of $0.91 per 100 kilograms. Wheat imports were granted a 50 percent reduction in The United States rate on onions during the low-duty season was reduced from $2.50 to $1.50 per 100 kilograms, and the low-duty period

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will begin on June 1 rather than June 15. On potatoes, imports from the United States during the months of August and September will be dutiable at $1.00 per 100 kilograms, a reduction of 50 percent from the Potatoes imported during the months of July and October will continue to be subject to a rate of $2.00 per 100 kilograms. The rate for the remaining months of the year continues at $4.00 per 100

former rate.

Reductions in rates on other important agricultural items included the following: Fat pork, merely salted, 16 percent; compound lard, 25 percent; peas and chick peas, 12 percent; canned peas, sweet corn and asparagus, 50 percent; canned fruits, 25 percent; canned soups, 25 percent; canned luncheon meats, 30 per cent; fruit juices, 45 percent; fecula and cornstarch, 25 percent; jams, jellies and marmalades, 16 percent; and whiskey, 10 percent. Among other items, bindings of existing duty treatment were secured on fresh fruits, soy bean oil, and pork, except products dutiable under letters and B of item 241 of the Cuban tariff. ▲ 50 percent decrease in the duty rate was granted on oleaginous seeds and alfalfa meals for feeding livestock, a 14 percent decrease on feed for fowl and an 18 percent reduction on unspecified feeds. The present duty on cigarettes was bound against increase. Raw cotton and wool were made duty free.

Instruments, Machinery and Appliances - Radios and phonographs were made dutiable uniformly at a rate of 20 percent ad valorem, representing duty cuts of from 23 to 28 percent. The rates on parts and accessories for radios and phonographs were reduced by 50 percent and about 30 percent, respectively. The existing rate of 15.96 percent ad valorem on office appliances and accessories was lowered to 14 percent on appliances and 10 percent or accessories. The rates on passenger cars valued at less than $2,300 at the factory were reduced from 16 to 26 percent while the existing rate was bound on automobiles valued at $2,300 or over. Reductions were secured of 50 percent on automobile bodies and truck bodies, unmounted, of about 20 percent on automotive parts and 33 percent on truck chassis. Duties were lowered substantially on motorcycles and parts, railway passenger coaches, and accessories for pumps and boilers. Moderate reductions were negotiated on many other items in this class, and bindings were granted on a number of low duty items such as scientific apparatus for physics laboratories, agricultural and sugar machinery, electrical machinery and apparatus, sewing machines end tractors and parts.

Textiles - Cuba found great difficulty in making any concessions on textiles in view of the expansion during recent years of their domestic industry and of their maturing plans for further expansion in this field. It was necessary to accent some increases in the specific rates on unbleached, bleached, and plain-dyed fabrics of cotton and rayon. Compensating reductions were made on fabrics, printed or colored in stripes, squares or other designs. In the case of increased duties the ad valorem equivalent of the duty will nevertheless be lower in most instances than prior to the war.

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Miscellaneous henufactures - The duty on plain glass tableware wâs reduced from $4.008 to $3.50 per 100 kilograms, end lowered rates were made on electric light bulbs, the reductions ranging from 12 to 33 percent in accordance with wattage. Amon the concessions grented on iron and steel products were decreases on railway rails and rail bars of le percent, on razor blades of 10 percent, on rolled sheets, not polished or tinned, of 50 percent, and on wire over one-half millimeter and up to 8 millimeters in diameter of 25 percent. rate of duty on oil of turpentine and synthetic rubber was cut by 50 percent, and a new tariff item was cceated to provide for natural and synthetic beverage extracts without sweetening having a rate of 0.15 per kilogram. A reduction of 33 percent was made in the duty on artificial colors, in powder or lumps, while the tariff on the Cuban import item pills, capsules, medicinal lozenges and similar articles" was lowered by 45 percent. Cardboard containers in which goods are imported into Cuba will benefit by a 21 percent reduction in the duty rate, and the rate on wooden shooks for crates was reduced from $0.96 to $0.06 per 100 kilograms. A 50 percent reduction was negotiated on the rate for plywood.

The United States rate on patent

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