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 2522 _ PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ’°¤°”Y 2°·'°*°· Br Tun Pnnsrnmrr or run Urirrnn Srarns or Ammmca. A PROCLAMATION. _ p,L’u",§_,_°” D“*°" WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved rmmtn. August. 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To provide revenue, equalize M"' °‘°°` duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for, other purposes"— That from and after the thirt —first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise special] 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 A rnto any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable listof section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-tive per centum ad valorem· which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty—Erst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafteras the Presidentshall 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 regulatiom, 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 expcrt dutly or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w `ch 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, thereugon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United tates, all articles when imported into the United ` States, or an of its possemions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuilal: from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted unieghegerms o the minimum tariE o the United States as prescribed by section one o is ct. _. AND Wnnrznas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the etherhmds imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regula- ' tions, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale ID the Netherlands in Europe, the Island of Curacao, and Dutch Guiana, of any agricultural, manufactured, or other pcoduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the mted States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Netherlands 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 the Netherlands accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other produccs of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equiva ent: ulgahgllzrurpo urgpéup- ljiow, Tnmrnroau, I, Wmram Howarm Tarr, President of the fr., m n.omr..¤.n, United States of America, by virtue of the power rn me vested by the g‘{’?-h§· md D““‘“ aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after Marc _3l, l910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is m existence and the Govemment of the Netherlands 1II§)OS8S no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the etherlands m Europe, the Island of Curacao, and Dutch Guiana of the products of the United States which unduly discriminate agamst the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the N etiierlands in Europe, the Island of Curacao, and Dutch Guiana shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as preicribed by Seézgron one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved ugust 5, 19 ;