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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2519 such change or changes in its present lawe or regulations affecting American commerce 11:1 Egypt as to d1scrimmate unduly m any Way agamst such_commerce, and m the further event that a pr0clamat10u by the Presxdent of such fact, revoking the present prociamatwn, shall have been 1ssued. IN WITNESS WHEKEOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. _ Dozm at the C1ty of Washmgton, t}11S twenty—mnth day of January, A. D. one thousand nme hundred and ten, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thuty-fourth. _ Wu H TAM By the Premdent: P C KN0x Secretary of State. BY mm Pnnsmmwr or mm UNITED STATES or Anmmcn. ’¤¤°°¤ ”°·m°· A PROCLAMATION. VVHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August p,'§`,j‘§,°¤‘{” P°"“"""’ 5, 1909, entmtled "An Act To provuje revenue, equahze dunes and gz encourage the industmes of the United States, and for other pur- o ' 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 Umteei States, or into any of its possessions (except the Pniligilpiue 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 thxs 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 ang - other manner, dnrectly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in apc 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 exgort du? or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich un uly 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, ugon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles w en nmported 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. Asn WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Portugal imposes no terms or restrictmns, either m the way of tanif rates or prov1sions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactmns, or II} any other manner, directl{ or ind1· rectly, upon the rmportatnou into or the sale in Portuga and the Azores and Madeua Is]ands of any airicultural, manu actured, or other product of the United States, wh1c unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Portugal pays no export lgountfy or unposes no exgort duty or prohibmon upon the exportation 0 any article to the nited States which 1mduly d1scr1mmates agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Portugal accords to the