Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 2.djvu/1188

 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2629 BY THE PRESIDENT 01-* THE UNITED STATES 01-* AMERICA. umn?4. 1910. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August Mm °¤ P¤°d¤¤¤°* 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and ` encoirrage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- *""°·*’·““· poses -— That from and after the thiggr-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 fore§gn countrg into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine slands an 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 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 regulations, charges, exactions, or in an 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 rohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich un uly 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 te 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 Tutuils.), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms 0 the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wnnnms satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Afghanistan 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 Afghanistan of any agricultural, manu actured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereo, and that the Government of Afghanistan pays no export bounty or imposes no explort duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discmninates %ainst the United States or the products thereof, and that the overnment of Afghanistan accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tnnnsrons, I, Wrnnnm Howssn Tiurr, President of the ulggtguvtk ML? gg United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the fiom Argiamsmufm aforesaid Act of Congress, do, hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31,_ 1910, and so lo%(thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the vernment of Afghanistan imposes no terms or restrictions upT0n the importation or sale in Afghanistan of the products of the nited States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles When importe into the United States, or any of its possessions (excelpt the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), om Afghamstan 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 dxS1:_3£g<;¤i1¤:n%¤ from and after March_31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event against assi-ilgufiismf that at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence '“°'°°· shall) be presented to the President that the Government of Afghan- I