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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2641 BY rim Pansmawr or THE Uiwmn Sums or America. uml; 24, mc. A PROCLAMATION. WIIEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August p,§`§,§'f¤,_ °“ ‘”"”°°° 5, 1909, entitled "An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties and Smmbigz _ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- 'p` p0ses"—- - That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as ptherwxse specially proyided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreigln coimtry into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine slands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the duiziable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-five er centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United) States: Provided _ That whenever, after the thirty-iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the con- 4 cessions gmnted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country  no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other mixlations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation inte or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other &roduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or e products thereof, and that such foreign country pa s no export bounty or  no export duty or prohibition upon the exrtation ol any article to the Unite States which unduly discriminates against the lighted 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 reci mcal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by Sie President of the United tates, all articles when 1mported into the United States, or an of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and 'lyutuila), 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 WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the Empire of China imposes no_ terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in an? ot 1er manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or t ie sale in the Empire of China, including all its dependencies of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Empire of China pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the Lnited States which undu y discrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Empire of China accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which IS reciprocal and equivalent: _ Now, Tmmmvoim, I, WILLQAM Howann Tarr, President of the ulgriggurgc tw.? gg United States of America, by virtue of the power m me vested by the From chinese izmliim. 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 emstence and the Government of the Emp1re of China imposes no terms or restrictions u(p0n the importation or sale in the Empire of China, including all its ependencies 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from the Empire of China, including all its dependencies 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;