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 2648 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. d` l r indirectl, u on the im rtation into or the sale in such fore` giliiiliilif; ofuaiidyiizgricultural,ymarlfufactm·ed,P§r other product of the United Stagg; which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, andthat BHC}! foI'€igl] C0l1]1t!'y p8yB D0 BXPOIT b0l1Hlr¥J0I' IlII]pOS€S D0 B}5pOl`t  Ol`·pI'Qhll)1lZlOH upon the ex rtatnon of any article to the mted States which undu y discrimmates against the glnited States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manu actured, 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 States, all articleswhen imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine lslan s and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shal, 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 French Republic 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 Gabun 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 French Republic with respect to Gabun pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or rohibition upon the exportation of any artic e to the United States wlhich unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to Gabun accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: liinimum urmpég Now, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM Howrlnn TAM, President of the Kl,}§‘%§b,,ZZ lm United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lon thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the government of the French Republic imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Gabun 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 Fhilipine Islands and the islands o Guam and Tutuila), from Gabun 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; · nevomuuiuunaue Provided, however, that this p)roclamation shall not take effect ‘ £€f,mf*P'*_'{'},§*e‘;i“g‘8¤’§,,*,‘},$ from and after March 31, 1910, ut 'shall be null and void in_the mw- event that, at any time rior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presentedp to the President that the Government of the French Repub ic has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Gabun as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, 1•ev0k1.%Ithe]§>resent&oclamation, shall have been issued. IN TN SS W REOF I have hereunto set my hand and canlgsed the seag o%the Uipiteu Sltates to be affixed. ' 0NE at the `ty 0 Vi as `n ton this twenty-eighth da of March, A. D. one thoiigsand nine hundrirzd §.nd ten yand [sEAI..] of the Inde endence of the United States of Anierica the one hundred and thirty-fourth. By the President: WM H Tm P C KNox Secretary of State.