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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2645 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Mm·ch24, 1910. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is mvided in the Act of Congress approved August ,h}`¤’*” °“ P’°dP°*S °' 5, 1909, entitlegl ".·£n_Act To provigle revenue, equal§)ze duties and A§h;°sseSSwmm eucougage the mdustmes of the United States, and for other pur- A,§;“;,_§4_ poses — That frqm and after the thirty-first day of March, pineteeu hundred and ten, except as otherwxse specially prov1ded for in thxs section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from au; foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the hilippinc Islands and the islands of Guam apd Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dunable list of sectwn one of thas Act, and in addition thereto twenty·Eve per centum ad valbrem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of Mgxrch, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be saiusiied, in v1ew of the character of the coucessxous granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country. imposes no terms or restrictmns, 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 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 dut or (frohibition upon the ex rtation of any article to the United States which uncgxly iscrimiuates against the ignited States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manuiactured, 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 Umwd States, all articles when imported int0_ the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the mlauds of Guam and Tutuila), from such forengn country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the mimmum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Ama WHEREAS satisfactory evidence h_as been presented to me that the Govermnent of the Ottoman Empnre with yespect to Turkish Possessnons in Afrnca nmpqses no terms OI' restrichons, either m the way of tariff rates or p1·0v1sions, trade or other regulations, charges, exa.ct1011s, or in any other rqanncr, directly orind1{‘ect1y,_up0n the importation into or the sale m THfklS11 Posscssmns m Africa of amy agricultural, manufactured, or_ other product of the United States, which undully d1scr1m1na,te against the United States or the products thereof, am thent the Goyernrpent of the Ottoman Empire \V1th respect to Turk1sh Possessmns {11_Africu. pays no cxport b0unty or imposes no exgoxjt duty or prohibition up0n_ the egiportzxtnoq of any urtmle to the mted States whxch unduly dnscrimmutes agmnst the United States or the products thereof, and_thut the Government of the Ottoman Empire with respect to Turknsh Posscssions in Africa accords to the agucultural, manufactured, or othexjproducts of the. United States treatment which IS reciprocal and equnvalentz Now, 'I`m:m:1·*0RE, I, W11,1.{AM Howiuw TAFT, President of the l}gg{;¤¤’§, °¤{j§p°¤g; United_States of America, by vu·tue of the power m me vested by the gum murmsn Possesaforesmd Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that s[°"“""°‘m°°' from and after M_argh 31] 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress ns m emstence and the Government of the Ottoman Empire with re§pect to Turkish Possessions in Africa imlgsoses 110 terms pr restr1ctions upon the 1mp0rtation pr sale in Turkis Possessions_ 11% Africa 0_f the pmductspf the United States which unduly discriminate awaxnst the United_ States, ell articles when imlgmrted into the U11itecT§tates, or any of1ts possessnpus (except the Phi ppine Islands and the 1818.I1dS of Guam and Tutmla), from Turkish_P0ssessions 111 Afmca shal1 be admitted upder the terp1s·0f the minimum tariff of the United States as prescrnbed by Sectmu one of the Tatrif Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909;