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 2514 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ’°'“'°“’Y *°·*°*°· BY THE Pnmsmnm or mn Umrnn Sriwrns or Aumzres. A PROCLAMATION. “'L*;'m°¤ B•*¢'¤ WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress aplproved August rmmus. 5, 1909, entitled " n Act To provide revenue, equaize duties and "'“* *"°°T encourage the industries of the United States, and for other p1u·- p0S6SH__ . That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred `and ten, except as otherwise s ially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on allpfsticles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its pomemions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutunla), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, andjn 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 counntiy imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, the or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in an 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 ex rt dnt or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States wliihh undhly 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 n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles whgn imported into the United States, or any of its pomemions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such forei country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms olnthe minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Ann Wnnnms satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Belgium imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tar1tf 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 Belgium 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 Belgium pays no export bounty or imposes no ezlrport duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the mwd States which undu y discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Bel `um accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products oflthe United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: g§§l’§"’;‘g, “§‘,{'p,;*,; Now, Tnmrnronn, 1, WILLQAM Howann Tsrr, President of the Bdwm- United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is m exrstence and the Government of Bel 'um imposes no terms or restrictions •upon the importation or said in Be gium of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United_States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of itsfossessions (except the Phili ine Islands and the rslands of Guam an _Tutuila), from B21 'um shall be admitted under the terms of the mmimum tariff of theglilnited States as presxcnbedz lgy Séeggion one of the TariE Act of the United States approved ugggg rovided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect zzige smmsmmm- from and after_March_31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ' that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of Belgium
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