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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2525 United States, which unduly icriminats against the United States or the products thereof, and that such tdieiiu country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which un uly discrrmrnates against the United States or the roducts thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufiictured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereu n and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect b the President of the Uxiiited 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 shal , except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under

   of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of

¤ - . AND Wnnnnas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Mexico 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 Mexico of an agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Mexico pays no export bounty or imposes no export dutg or prohibition ulpon the exportation of any article to the United tates which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Mexico accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tummronn, I, Wrnuau Howsnn TAM, President of the llllnrmurg, wps ¤p- United States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by the iitigitiiisxsw. mmm aforesaid Act of Congress, di') 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 Mexico imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Mexico of the lproducts of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its ossessions (except the Phili ine Islands and the islands of Guam and) Tutuila), from Mexico shali)he 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; Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect ,,,¥§§,‘{,,°f§§§‘},‘}¤§'“,§‘,% from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ;z¤¤j;¤;¤ A=¤°**¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤· that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ` shall be presented to the President that the Government of Mexico has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Mexico 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. Donn at the City of Washington, this ninth day of February, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the Inde- [scar.,] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of Slate.