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 2506 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. shall be resented to the President that the Goyernment of His Britannicqtiajesty has made such change or changes in its prese_nt laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation bly the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day of January, A. D. one thousan nine hundred and ten, and of the. [SEAL.] Indelpendence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. . WM H TAFT By the President: P C Kivox Secretary ey State. ’°°‘”“Y 18* lm Br run Pnnsrnniwr or Tun Umrnn Smrns or Aumuoa. A PROCLAMATION. ` przduélgs ¤¤ Smnlsh WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August rmmbis 5, 1909, entitled " n_Act To provide revenue, equa ize duties and ""“* "‘ 82* encour e the industries of the United States, and for other uras P poses —— That from and after the thirty—iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the hilippine Islands and the islands ' of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other nfanner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in suc foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export dut or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undluly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, u on proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles wiien imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND WHERE.as satisfacto_ry_ evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Spam imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or .1H any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in the Kingdom and Colonial Possessions of Spain of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Spam pays no export bounty or_imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Spain accords to the agricultural, manu-