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 2662 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. resented to the President that the Government of the French Republic has made such change or changes m its gresent laws or regulations affecting American commerce in French mana as to discrimmate unduly m any way against such commerce, and m the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shall bave been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Statw to be aiHxed._ Dom: at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundre and ten, and of the [sun,.] Indepgidence of the United States of America the one hun and thirty-fourt. Wu H Tarr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. umu zs,1a1o. BY '1'HE_ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF Aumuca. A PROCLAMATION. · s:.T¥n|5&°•np3d1'i°qi’u2 WHEREAS it is Xlnovided in the Act of Congress aplproved August ’°",;,,mb,,_ 5, 1909, entitled “Act To provide revenue, equa 1ze duties and Aw. r- 81 encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes"—— I That from and after the thigtdy-iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provid for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any fore@ country into the United States, or into 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 ection 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: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, m view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the overnment of any foreign country 1m§es no terms or restrictions, either in the way ofg tariff rates or provisions, trade or o er regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, irectly or indirectly, upon the Importation into or the sale in such foreign coun of ‘ guy agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which uriilliily discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such forei country pays no export bounty or_1m es no export duty or prohibition upon th'; exportation of any article to the Unitedpgetates which 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 when 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 Wnnnnas 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 rovisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in an otger manner, directly or_ indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in St. Pierre and Miquelon of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, an_ that the Government of the French Republic wit respect to St. Pierre  Miquelon pays no export bounty or_1mposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United`States which unduly discriminates against