THE CUBA REVIEW 



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CUBAN EXPORT LICENSES 



President Menocal has signed a decree 

 along identical lines with that put into effect 

 by the United States, requiring that licenses 

 shall be obtained from the Treasury Depart- 

 ment for tlie exportation or re-<'xportation of 

 many classes of goods, the list of which is 

 given in the text of the decree whi(;h follows: 



Whereas: The President of the United 

 States of North America, in his proclamation 

 of the 27th day of August last, makes it known 

 to all those that it may concern, that public 

 security requires, except in some circumstances 

 and under such regulations and orders, sub- 

 ject to such limits and exceptions as the Presi- 

 dent may prescribe and until Congress may 

 so order, the articles in this proclamation as 

 enumerated cannot be, after the 30th day of 

 August last, exported, embarked or taken 

 from the United States or its territorial posses- 

 sions to foreign countries as cited, and to this 

 effect designated an .Administrative Com- 

 mittee of l<)xportation, that under his authori- 

 they execute that which appears to be dis- 

 posed in the aforesaid proclamation, accord- 

 ing to the regulations, ord(>rs, limitations and 

 reservations of the {)ermits that result as 

 follows : 



Wherefore, merchandise that is contracted 

 for by the President of the United States of 

 America now being imported or of national 

 production, given the necessaries of supply 

 and consumption in the interior, the fluctua- 

 tions of prices in the markets and the excep- 

 tional circumstances in which Cuba finds her- 

 self with respect to the neighboring Republic 

 and the state of war with the German empire 

 must submit herself to a similar regime as 

 that dictated in the proclamation before 

 mentioned to second the propositions that 

 may arise and that may result adequate to the 

 political situation, and to the international 

 commenie: 



^^'herefo^e, using the powers granted by 

 the constitution and the law in conjunction 

 with Congress under date of the 7th of April, 

 of the present year, and at the proposal of 

 the Secretary of the Treasury : 



/ resnlvr, That authority to export or re- 

 export the articles mentioned below must 

 previously be solicited from the Secretary of 

 the Treasury, the Secretary reserving the 

 right to concede or not the permission re- 

 quired according to the details and antece- 

 dents in each case. 



All classes of arms, canons, munitions and 



explosives, machines for their manufacture 

 and repairs and component parts of the same 

 materials or ingredients used in their manu- 

 facture and every article necessary or con- 

 venient for its use; every means of transport 

 on land, on sea, or in the air, machines used 

 in their manufacture or repair, and their 

 component i)arts; materials or ingredients 

 used in their manufacture and every instru- 

 ment, article and animal necessary or con- 

 venient for their use; every means of commun- 

 ication, tools, utensils, or instruments, equip- 

 ment, maps, photographs, papers and other 

 articles, machines and documents necessary 

 for the carrying on of hostile operations, coined 

 money, gold and silver in bars, paper money, 

 titles of national del)ts, metals, materials, 

 dies, plates of metal, machinery and other 

 articles necessary and convenient for its 

 manufacture; all classes of food stuffs, forage, 

 materials and articles used in its manufac- 

 ture, (ihemical products, tanning matter, 

 dyes, cotton, wools, silk, thread and other 

 fibers and manufactiu-es, all earths, bars 

 of metal, glass, sand and their products; 

 skins of animals and their manufactures, pro- 

 ducts of animals and vegetables not eatables, 

 machinery tools, and apparatus equipment 

 and medical accessories, surgical accessories, 

 all laboratories and sanitary accessories; all 

 metals, minerals, mineral oils and all things 

 derived from them and their manufacture; 

 paper pulp, books and prints, rubber, resins, 

 tar or pitch, wax, and their products, derived 

 from and substitutes of all the articles that 

 they contain; wood and its manufacture, 

 coffee, cocoa, tea and spices, wines, liquors, 

 mineral waters and beverages ; coal, 

 coke, combustible oils, lubricants, lighting 

 oils, naptha, benzine, red oil, kerosene, and 

 gasoline, all classes of combustibles; grain 

 foods, flour, cornflour, barley, rice flour, 

 rice, oats, oatmeal, forage and hay, oil cake, 

 oil cake meal, malt, peanuts, oil of maize, 

 copra, cocoanut butter, fresh fish, dried and 

 preserved fish, animal and vegetable grease 

 whether they are eatable or not; linseed 

 oil, lard, milk in tins, oil or stearine candles, 

 "bluscosa," syrup and juices; pig iron silica of 

 iron, ferro-manganese; ingots of steel, blocks, 

 iron bloom, sheets and plates of lamina; 

 plates of iron and steel, including those of 

 ships, boilers, tanks and all the other plates 

 of iron or steel, of an eighth of an inch thick 

 and more, and wider than six inches; iron and 

 steel moulds for structures, including iron 



