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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. imposes no terms or restrictions ugon the importation or sale in Peru of the products of the United tates which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the Un1ted_ States, or any of its possessions (except the hililppme I_slands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Peru shall e 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;ded h h t th` l f h ll t take effect R°'°°•**°¤ " °¤d°° Provi owever t a is proc ama ion s a no _ ggkmiiriiimainiluingsulidlxiig from and after March ,31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the_event ""'°" that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government o_f Peru has made such change or cha es in its present laws or regulations affecting.American commerce ilrigPeru as to discriminate un uly m any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation b the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, sliyall have been issued. IN WI'I‘NESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United_States to be affixed. · Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-first day of Februargr, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [situ,.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundligd and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam By the President: HUNTINGTON WILSON Acting Secretary of State. A PROCLAMATION. Tm °¤ °h“°*¤ WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August pfgsfgta. 5, 1909, entitled "Aln _Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and A"' "‘ 82* encourage the industries of the United States, and for 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutnila), 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 countréy imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, tra e or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in an 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 ex rt duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which un uly giscriminates 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, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles whgn 1mported into the United States, or any of its possemions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such forei country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of tg: minimum tariff of th)e United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Ann Wnnnnas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Chile imposes no terms or restrictions, either
 * "°*"¤¤*’Y2*· Im"- Br run PRESIDENT or THE UNrrmn Srxrns or Anmiuoa.