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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2621 roduct: thereof, and that such fore' co n n rt or im so export duty or prohibition uponli-he elirptdiytariilf oi) 1$nx;¥0artil<;l,emtby the Um 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 an of its possessions (except the Philme Islands and the islands of Guam and 'llirtuila), from such foreign country l, except as otherwise herein provided, he admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND Wnnnnas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the German Empire with respect to Kiaochow 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 Kiaochow of any agricultural, manufactured, or other roduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of the German Empire with respect to Kiaochow pays no export bounty or imposes no export dutg or prohibition :111pon the exportation of any article to the United tates which und y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the German Empire with respect to Kiaochow accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reci rocal and e§u1valent: Now, Tnnnnronm, I? WILLIAM owann Tam, President of the "*g*,§“¤§,»’*{§p°{ United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by gil? Kiaochow. the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so long} thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congfess is in existence and the ovemment of the German Empire wit respect to Kiaochow imlposes no terms or restrictions u on the importation or sale in Kiaoc ow 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 Kiaoc ow 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; ,Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect ,,,§.$$§',‘{},‘,,,{,'“,'{,°,‘,}‘g from and after March 31, 1910, ut shall be null and void in the £¤¤¤:*A¤¤¤¤•¤¤¤¤· event that, at any time (prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evi· ` dence shall be presente to the President that the Government of the German Empire with respect to Kiaochow has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Kiaochow as to discrimmate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a roclamation 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. Dorm at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred? and ten, and of the [sun.] Inde ndence of the United States of America the one huntlrfgd and thirty-fourth. ‘ Wu H Tan By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State.