Editing McKinley Tariff (section)

===Eliminated tariffs===
The Act removed tariffs on sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, and hides but authorized the President to reinstate the tariffs if the items were exported from countries that treated U.S. exports in a "reciprocally unequal and unreasonable" fashion. The idea was "to secure reciprocal trade" by allowing the executive branch to use the threat of reimposing tariffs as a means to get other countries to lower their tariffs on U.S. exports. Although this delegation of power had the appearance of being an unconstitutional violation of the [[nondelegation doctrine]], it was upheld by the Supreme Court in ''[[Field v. Clark]]'' in 1892, as authorizing the executive to act merely as an "agent" of Congress, rather than as a lawmaker itself.<ref name="field">[http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?friend=nytimes&court=us&vol=143&invol=649 FindLaw.com ''Field v. Clark'' decision text]</ref> The President did not use the delegated power to re-impose tariffs on the five types of imported goods, but he used the threat of doing so to pass 10 treaties in which other countries reduced their tariffs on U.S. goods.<ref>The treaties were with Austria–Hungary (May 20, 1892), Brazil (April 1, 1891), the Dominican Republic (Sept. 1, 1891), El Salvador (Feb. 1, 1892), Germany (Feb. 1, 1892), Guatemala (May 30, 1892), Honduras (May 25, 1892), Nicaragua (March 12, 1892), Spain (for Cuba and Puerto Rico, Sept. 1, 1891), and the United Kingdom (for the British West Indies and British Guiana, Feb. 1, 1892).</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/11/24/archives/reciprocity-treaties-with-other-countries-official-data-covering.html|title=Reciprocity Treaties with Other Countries|date=November 24, 1901|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>