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 2664 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ‘ ‘ ‘ ' i to the United States which undul sih)di·iliii‘1n(ixli.eh3Izi.0gl;ii;1ldtl}t(l?1IapUlntilt;iuSl)2it1£;s1}drEtIhieci>‘i·oducts thereof, and that such foreigii 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 States, all articles w en unported 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 Wmsmcas 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 Martinique of any agricultural, manufactured, or otheriproduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the nited States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to Martinique pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of anyjarticle to the nited States which unduly discriminates against the nited States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect » to Martini ue accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products di the United States treatment which is reciprocal and _ equivalent: m“§’_P“’§, “*,'f_§'w‘§g Now, Tnnnnronn, I, WILLIAM HowARD TAFT, President of the gizblnrunique. United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby malge known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long 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 Martinique of the roducts of the United States which undul discriminate agiainst the Iilnited States, all articles when importeclz into the Unite States, or any of its possessions (except the hilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Martini ue shall be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the(llnited States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; l 3g¤;*¤;ggg Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect against Ama-x¤¤¤¤¤m~ from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the ‘“°“’°‘ event that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be lpresented 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 Martinique as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact revokinvglthe Eresent reclamation, shall have been issued. I IN TN SS WPIEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dom: at the City of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of March A. D. one thousand nine hundre<i7 and ten and of the [smn.] Independence of the United States of America the one hun ed and thirty-fourth. By the President: WM H Tm P C Knox Secretary of State.