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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2515 has made such_ change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce m Belg1um_ 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, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and -caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the C1ty of Washington, this twenty-n1nth day of January, A. D. one thousand mne hundred and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Indepgpidenee of the United States of America the one hun and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. Br rim Pamsmnrrr or rim UNITED Srarns or Amrmcs. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is dprovided in the Act of Congress approved Au- ,,,'£,,‘,'§,°,,_ °“ D‘°"° gust 5, 1909, entitle "An Act To provide revenue, equalize duties 5%;% and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes"— That from and after the thirty·lirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collecteg and paid on all articles when imported from any) foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the hilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this ct, 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 sbal be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country 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 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 dnt or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which undliily iscriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such forggn country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the Uni States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by e 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. AND Wmmnas satisfactori evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Denmar imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tar1ff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions,_or in any other manner, directly or indirect! , ilipon the importation mto or the sale in Denmark, including thfe aero Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and the West India Colonies of Denmark 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 Denmark pays no export bounty or imposes no ezaport duty or prohibition u(pon the exportation of any] article to the mted States which unduly iscriminates against the mted States or the products thereof, and that the