and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States 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 States, 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.
Aand Whereas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the Swiss Confederation 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 Switzerland 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 Swiss Confederation pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Swiss Confederation accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent:
Minimum tariff applicable to imports from Switzerland.
Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the
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 long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of the Swiss Confederation imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Switzerland 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Switzerland 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;
Revocation if undue discriminations made against American commerce. Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect 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 presented to the President that the Government of the Swiss Confederation has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Switzerland as to discriminate unduly 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.
[SEAL.]
DONE at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day of January, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the In- dependence of the United States of America the one hun- dred and thirty-fourth.
By the President: Wm H Taft
P C Knox Secretary of State.
