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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2577 ‘ Br THE PRESIDENT or THE Urzrrnn STATES 01-* Aunnrca. Mmh r 1***0- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August B§3§§§wPg°§,‘;§°‘ 5, 1909, ent1tled "  Act Tolprovide revenue, equalize duties and en- liraezmblgi courage the industries of the nited States, and for other purposes "— ’°‘ That from and after the thiffr-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provid 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 an of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutu&), 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- ve 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 concemions 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 0 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 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 explort duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States whic unduly 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 thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United tates, all articles w en imported into the United· States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine 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. Arm WHEREAS satisfactory eyidence has been presented to me that the Government of His Britanmc Majesty with respect to British New Guinea imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tarif rates or plrovisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directéy or mdirectly, upon the Jmportation mto or the sale in Brit1sh New umea 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 His Brntannic Majesty with respect to British New Guinea pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or pfohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, an that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to British New Guinea accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tnnnnronm, l, Wrrmram Howann TAFF, President of the ,§‘g_§g{g°¤*g_ *°{}§ *;g United States of America, gy virtue of the power m me vested by the %¤ug British New aforesaid Act of Congress, 0 hereby make known and proclaim that °°” from and after March 31_, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress IS in existence and the Goyermnent of His Britannic Majesty with respect to British New Guinea umpvoses no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in British 1 ew Guinea of the · roducts of the United tates which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United tates, or any of its dpossessions (excgnj the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam an Tutuilal, from ritish New uinea shall be admitted under the terms of the mmimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5 1909 ‘ i Provided, however, that this proclamation shall_not take effect from asm$df uiiiidi and after March 31, 1910, but s all be null and void in the event that, §,$"',,§§‘ *"‘°"°°" “""' 8874l°—vo1. 36, PP 2-11--73