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 2618 PROCLAMATION S, 1910. ¥¤¤>h2*·1°l°· BY mn Pnnsrnmwr or ·rrra Unrrnn Srrsrns or Armaroa. · A PROCLAMATION. A ,,,'*`¤”'°° P*°d¤°'¤ °‘ WHEREAS it is govided in the Act of Congress aplproved August %ble. 5, 1909, entitled “Act To provide revenue, equa ize duties and 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 hihpprne 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 m addition thereto twenty-five_per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Promklcd, That whenever, after the thirty-Grst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President s all be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the governmentof any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either rn the way or tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, orin any other manner, directly or mdirectfy, upon the importation into or the sale in suc foreign conmtry of any agricultura, 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 prohibition upon the exportation of any artic e to the United States which unduly iscnmnnates against the llnited States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States_ treatment which IB reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon procla- _mation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islan s 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 Wnnnsas satisfactory evidence has bien plresented to me that the Government of His Britannia Majesty wit res act to Tonga imposes no terms or restrictions, e1ther in the way of)tariE 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 Tonga of any agriculture, 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 Britannic Majesty with respect to Tonga pays no export bounty or imposes no explort dug or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the mted tates which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of Hrs Britannrc Majesty with respect to Tonga accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ummm mspux Now, Tnrzrznroan, 1, Wrnrram Howann Tam, President of the f,'j;*'2,‘§¤gL’ lm United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do 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 Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Tonga imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Tonga_of the products of the United States which unduly drscrnmmate against the United States, all articles when unported mto the United States, or ang of its possessions (except the Phrhpiplme Islands and the islands of uam and Tutuila), from Tong? sh be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the mted States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; undue Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect wm Amghnmm. from and after_M¤rch_3l, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event '°“°°~ that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence
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