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 2642 I>R0cLAMAT1oNs, 1910. nmemou 11 undue Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect Q°?,,°:,,"fiX2.?§i'§,¤'{},°.‘l,i from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and vo1d In the_event mms- that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be resented to the President that the Government of the Empire of China has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Empire of Chma, including all its dependencies as to d1scr1m1nate undu y in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall have been Issued. _ IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundre and ten, and of the [sam,.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hunriigd and thirty-fourth. WM H Tarr By the President: P C KNOx Secretary 1y' State. llareh24,l910. BY THE PB.Es1;DENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. 'hruron products or WHEREAS it is Krovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August Nigiiimme. 5, 1909, entitled " n Act To PIOVIGG revenue, equa Ize dut1es and ° poses"— 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 an; foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the hilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty tprescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this ct, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valoreing which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March nineteen hun— dred 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 vemment of any foreign country  no terms or restrictions, either in ais way of tariff rates or provisions, the or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in anky other manner, directly_or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such oreign country of may agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly iscriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes B0 export duty or (prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly iscriminates 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, thereu n and thereafter, urgon proclamation to this effect by the President of the UnitedXStates, all articles w en imported into the United States, or an of its possessions (except the Phili pine Islands and the islands of Guam and 'lliituila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tarih of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wr1EnEAs satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Nepal imposes no terms or restrictions, either In the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, egractions, or m any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in Nepal 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 Nepal pays no export bounty or imposes
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