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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2527 Argentine Republic has made such change or changes in its present laws or_ regulations affecting American commerce in the Argentine Republic as to discriminate unduly in any way against suc commerce, and in the further event that a proc amation by the President of sipézh fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been 1ssu. · IN WITNESS  I have hereunto set my hand and .caused the seal o_f the United'States to be affixed. Donn at the Crt of Washin ton, this ninth da of Februa, A. D. Y _ g Y YY one thousand mne hundred and ten, and of the Inde— [snail.] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam: By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. BY rum Pnnsinnrrr or rum Umrmn Srxms or Amtmca. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August 5, p,,,,,,M°" “°°°°° °‘ 1909, entitled "An_ Act To pgoynde revenue, erpuahze duties and en- $·;•g:*,g*g,_ courage the industries of the mted States, and or 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 into any of its possessions (except the P ilippine 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 manner, 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 imyipses no export duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the nited States whic und)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 there~ after, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when im(ported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islan s and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms o the mimmum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wnmzsas satisfactoryevidence has been presented to me that the Government of Panama imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, orin any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in Panama 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 Panama pays no export bounty or imposes no export_duty or prohibition upon the exportation o any article to the United States which undu y dxscriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Panama accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: