§ MR. OCTAVIUS V. MORGAN (Battersea)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, under the proposed Treaty between Brazil and the United States, manufactures from the latter country of cotton, steel, and iron will be admitted into Brazil at 25 per cent. less duty than will be levied on similar goods shipped from the United Kingdom; and whether he has received any information on the subject from Her Majesty's Ministers in Washington and Rio de Janeiro?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONThe intelligence received in this country is conveyed in a telegram from Washington, 481 and does not afford information as to the manner in which the Brazilian Government propose to apply the provisions of the Treaty in question. Her Majesty's Ministers at Washington and Rio de Janeiro will, no doubt, in accordance with the general practice of the Diplomatic Service, duly report by despatch the terms of this Treaty and its bearing upon British trade. I will inform the hon. Member when those despatches are received.