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 2622 PROcLAMAT1oNs, 1910. umszaiona Br rmt Pnnsmnur or trim Umrnn Smrns or Armarca. A PROCLAMATION. TM <>¤ P¤><*¤¢*=°' WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August Pmimmm 5, 1909, entitled "Kn Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and l;TQm:°§2_ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- ' poses"— That from and after the thirg-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise s ially provid for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on allpsrfticles 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 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-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 theredter 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 govern— ment of any foreign coimtry imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tarii 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 suc 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 exp-prt duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w 'ch 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, orany 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 tauff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Arm Wnnimas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the German Empire with_respect to German Possessions in Samoa 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 German Possessions in Samoa of any agricultural, manufactmed, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate agamst the United States or_ the products thereof, and that the Government of the German Empire with respect to German Possessions in Samoa pays no export bounty or im ses no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any articlfto the United States which unduly drscrrmmates agamst the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the German Empire with respect to German Possessions in Samoa accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Mkgilrénurp, ngnnwm lfiow, Tnnnnronn, l, WILLTAM Howarm Tam, President of the g ca-mm rms- United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the "°°"° S°‘“°* aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lonécphereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congpess rs rn existence and the vemment of the German Empire wit respect to German Possessions in Samoaimposes no terms_or restrictions upon the rmportation or sale in German Posses- 819118. rn Samoa of the products of the United States which unduly discmmmatexzgamst the United States, all articles when im rted into the Um States, or any of its possessions (except the glimppme Islands_ and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), lirom German ossessrons in Samoa shall be admitted under the terms of the mrmrnugn tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909;