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. PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2511 from and after March _31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Italy imposes no terms or restrictions_ upon the importation or sale in the Kingdom and Colonial Possessrons of Italy of the {products of the United States_wh1ch unduly discriminate against the nited States, all articles when rrnported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Kingdom and Colon1al_ Possessions of Italy shall be admitted under the terms of the mrmmum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; _ rovrded, owever, that this ggoclamation shall not take effect d,s§;;u°§g;l•ggn;* **:33: from and after March 31,_1910, ut shall be null and void in the agarrmammmn comevent that, at any t1me‘pr1or to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evi- “‘°'°°‘ dence shall be presente to the President that the Government of Italy has made such change or changes in rtsgresent laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the ngdom and Colonial Possessions of Italy as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by! the President of such fact, revokrn the resent roc amatron, shall ave bcc _ d S P P n issue. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to_ be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day of January, A. D. one thousan nine hundred and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Indeipendence of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. _ Wu H Tam By the President: P C Krrox Secretary of State. Br run Pnssrnnxr or rm: Urxrrnn Srarrzs or Amzmoa. ’°°“°'Y '”• ‘°‘°* A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is lprovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August ,,,2`d“f,§{,_ °“ R“”"" 5, 1909, entitled " n Act To provide revenue, equa rze duties and $;_¤,¤;¤1;>l§_ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other ’ ' purposes"— That from and after the thirty-first 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 mto any of its pomessions (except the Philippine 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 ppt centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the nited States: Promkied, 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 manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such 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 expprtation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the nited 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, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Phill pine Islandsand the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shafl, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act.