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 2530 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty·Eve_pe; 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 President shall he satisfied, in view of the character of the coucwnons granted by the mimmum tariff of the United States, that the government et any foreign country imposes no tenns or restrictions, either m the way of tariff rates or pi-ovisionsz trade or other nzguigtious, charges, exactions, or_m anx other manner, directly or indirectly, upon e 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 imposes no exgprt duty or robibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich unduly giscriminatee against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign conmtry 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 8l'tl¢lQS`W en nmported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Plnhppmo 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. AND Wunnms satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Paraguay 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 Paragua. of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United gtates, wh1ch unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of Paraguay pays no export bount or imposes no export duty or prohibition u{>on the exportation oiy any article to the United States which undu discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, andy that the Government of Para ay accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products oglizhc United States treatment which is reciprocal and e uivalent: 1¤¤¤¤¤¤& wlgpag Now, Tnnnnronm, I, WILLIAM HOWARD TAM, iresident of the mbriiuagmy. United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby mage known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lon thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and tie Government of Paragutéy imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale m araguay 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 its possessions (except the Philigpine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Para uay s all be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff otg the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the - United States approved August 5, 1909; d§,{gg;'gg¤;' @-23; Provided, however, that this pgoclamation shall not take effect mlmzamenunwm- from and after March 31, 1910, ut shall be null and void`in the "‘“°°‘ event that, at any time rior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented) to the President that the Government of Paraguay has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Paraguay as to discmminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revokiw the present roclamation, shall have been issued. IN ITNESS WI-FEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this ninth day of February, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the Inde- ‘ [snub] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. ' WM H TAM By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State.