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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2633 BY mn Pnnsmmrr or rms U1~zrrr:n Srryrrzs or Airmucx. umnzr, imc. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August K’1‘¤rm on products or 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and ¥$§‘£},§ig, encourage the mdustries of the United States, and for other pur- AM- v· 82- poses"—- That from and after the thirgy-Hist day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provide for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, ior nto 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: Pro- ·v1Hed, 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 o tariE rates cr 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 count of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which undyuly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or  no expprt duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the Uni States whic unduly discriminates 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 tates, 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 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 Wnnnsxs satisfactory evidence has been_ plresented to me that the Government of the Japanese Emp1re_w1t respect to the Kwantung Territory rmposes no terms or restr1ctions,_e1ther in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regiulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or ui irectly, upon the importation into or the sale in the Kwantunlgl Territory of any agricniiural, manufacturednor otheriproduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the nited States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Japanese Empire with respect to the Kwantung Territory pays no export_ bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly drscriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Japanese Empire with respect to the Kwantun(g Territory accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other pro ucts of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and e<pu1valent: _ Now, Trrnmazromz, I, V11.LmM Howann TAFI`, President of the ,,{§$§‘“'{‘0 ‘°{‘,§p0*;¤,; United States of America, léy virtue of the power in me vested by the from rcwamuug. aforesaid Act of Congress, o hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congxress is in existence and the Government of the Japanese Empire wrt respect t_o the Kwantung Territory imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in the Kwantung Territory of the products of the United _States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the hilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Kwantunig Territory shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum_ tari of the nited States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; _ Provided, however, that this proclamation shall npt_take effect dgylgygfggg ugm from and after_March_3l, 1910, but shall be null and void rn the_ event anim Amerlom wmthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date satisfactory evidence °'°°‘ _