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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2547 country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United ‘ States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles whgn imported into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and 'ljutuila), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms o the mimmum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wnzsnnss satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Ecuador 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 Ecuador of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, wh1ch unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Ecuador 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, an that the Government of Ecuador accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other producfs of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and e uiva ent: qNow, Tnnnmronn, I, Wrnmsng Howann Tam, President of the ,}gg',g=¤*g, *¤’,§P_;g United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by from scum:. the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so loni thereafter as the -: aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of . r F Ecuador imposes no terms or restrictions upon the implortation or ' sale in Ecuador of the products of the United States w ich unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when irnlported into the Unite States, or any of its possessions (except the Ph` p ine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Ecuador dliall 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; _ Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,£;,jn¤g;3·;L=¤g¥¤!g¤&g: from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event sauna Amsummmthat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence '”°'°°‘ shall be presented to the President that the Government of Ecuador — has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Ecuador 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 City of Washington, this twent —‘drst day of Februa , A. D. one thousand nine hundredy and ten, and of ge [snan.] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. W H T M AFT By the President: Hmvrrscrou Winsor: Acting Secretary of State.