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 r>RocLAMA·r1oNs, 1910. 2595 which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Cuba accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and e uivalent: Now, Tnnnnsoan, I, %VILLIAM Howann Tam, President of the ,§'{,l§°‘“§‘,, °°Q§,,,,'}§ United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Pmm C¤*¤¤— aforesaid Act of Con ess, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after Marcir 31, 1910, and so longlthereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Cuba imposes no terms or restrictions uyéon the importation or sale in Cuba of the products of the United tates which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the hili pine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Cuba shall 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· Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,S*:g,*§}-°,;g¤,g¤j;* gg: from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event mum inwnsn anthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence "’°'°°“ shall be presented to the President that the Government of Cuba has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Cuba as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation bg the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. _ IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be amxed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this eighth da of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and, of the Independ- [SEAL.] ence 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 me Paasmnm or ran Unrrnn Sryms or Aumzroa. ¤¤¤=¤ 8· 1*10- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is lprovided in the Act of Congress approved August ,’§d¤{f__,°¤ D°¤**¤’°•¤ 5, 1909, entitled " n Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and P rmmtne. encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- """”' p' 81 poses"—·- 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 an foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Pliili pine 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 tariE 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 he 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 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 export duty or