Grant has saved Japan, at least temporarily, from a ten per cent. penalty tariff.
This is the complicate legal situation disclosed by Basil Harris, commissioner of Customs. An 1828 law puts a ten per cent. extra tariff on foreign merchandise brought to the United States in foreign ships. Japan was exempted from this by the officially terminated, Japan would appear liable for the 1828 penalty. However, Harris searched the records and found Bai in 1872, od then President, a proclamation suspending the penalty against Japan, and this proclamation will replace the trade agreement in preventing the penalty. So General Grant, unless President Roosevelt revokes the proclamation, has saved the day for Japan.—Havas.
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