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PRocLAMAT10Ns,.1a1o. 2603 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 Tjituila), from such forei country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms ofnthe minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wrmmzas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His Britannic Majhesty with respect to Fiji imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provi- · sions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale - in Fiji of any agxricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, w ich unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, an that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Fiji pays no export bounty or imposes no export dugy or prohibition u(pon the exportation of any article to the Unite States which un uly dnscriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Ma`esty with respect to Fiji accords to the agricultural, manufactured], or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and egjiivalentz _ Now, Tnnnnroan, I, ituau Howann Tam, President of the ,L"{,',‘:°'{{, “{',§,,;¤; United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by from rm. the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so lon thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and tie Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Fiji imposes no terms or restrictions u on the rm ortation or sale in Fiji 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), rom Ffi shal 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 _,,,*§§§,,°°,,‘{§f{’,,‘},,§'“,’},‘{},"§, from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the ?_§3g·§¤A¤¤¤¢•¤¤¤¤· event that, at any time rior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evi- ' dence shall be resenterf) to the President that the Government of His Britannic lviiijesty with respect to Fiji has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Fiji as to discriminate undul 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. Dom: at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of [s1¤AL.] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam By the President: P C KNox Secretary of State.