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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2597 BY mm Pnnsmmrr or rms Uivrrnn Srarns or Amrmca. *“'°“·*°‘°· · A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it islprllovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August p,'§d“£‘,,_ °" ““““°’° 5, 1909, entitled ‘ _Act To provide revenue, equa ze duties and gykmblgz encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ’p' ' 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 any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the P ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutui a), 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 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 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 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 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 bormty or imposes no exportdutg or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich 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, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, 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 coimtry shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tarif of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wnmznas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Siam imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tamif rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or mdrrectly, upon the importation mto or the sale in Siam of any agricultural, manufacture, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Siam pays no export ounty or imposes no export duty ‘or prohibition upon the exportation of any artrc e to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of Siam accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: _ Now, Tnnnnmnn, I, Wrnrnm Howarzn Tarr, President of the ulgiggmgb *-31,,3 United_States of America, by virtue of the power m me vested by the ttm sam. aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 3l_, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Siam imposes no terms or restrictions upon theumportation or sale in Siam of the roducts of the United States which unduly discriminate ainst the United States, al1_ articles when imlported mto the Unitedarétates, or any of its possessions (except the hilippine Islands and the islands of Guam_and Tuturla), from Siam shall be admitted under the terms of the mnmmum 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 Revocation umu 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 mmshall be presented to the President that the Government o Siam has made such change or changes in_ its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce rn Siam as to discriminate unduly in