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 2540 1·RocLAMA*r10Ns, 1910. O F·**¤¤¤*¤·m°- ‘ BY mn Pnmsinmiw or mn Uurmn Srrxrms or Aumuca. A PROCLAMATION. ¤'§g{,*c'{sf’” ’*"Y"*“*'*¤ WHEREAS it is Xgovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August Preamble. 5, 1909, entitled “Act To provide revenue, equ ize duties and ’°°‘°'P`82° ‘ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- e th' -6rst da of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except a.s1obt}li;rf:g§i,—l;1;>deciht§1ytgmvim for in lihis section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from :1;% foreign country into the United States, or into suv of its possessions (except the ilippme 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-Eve per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thir?-first day of March nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, m 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 rxulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon e importation mm or the sale m such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured., or other product of the United States, whic unduly dnscmmmte against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no exlplprt dut or hibition upon the ex nation of any article to the United States w ch undiiily ciisncriminates against the Iignited States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other product: of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equ.ivalent,·thereupon and thereafter, ugin proclamation to this effect by the President of the_ United States, allarticles W en imported mto the United States or any of its possessions (except the Philippine lslands 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 Abyssinia 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 Ab ssinia of any `cultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, ifgilch unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Abyssinia pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Abyssinia accords to the agricultural, manufactured or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ‘ Mlgurnurpo agi ax Now, Tnmznronn, I, WILLIAQI Howann Tam, President of the iiliiiiabysinsa p° United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby maize known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lon thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Abyssinia imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Abyssinia 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 Philip ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Abyssinia slhall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United ~ States approved August 5, 1909; ngruédug Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect against Amnmwm- from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event "‘°"’°* that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactor evidence · shall be presented to the President that the Government oly Ab ssinia has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulyations