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2636 PROGLAMATIONS, 1910. nates 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 1IIl5)0l'lZ€d into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islan s and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shal , except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted imder the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Am) WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other marmer, directly or indirectly upon the 1m ortation into or the sale in Luxemburg of ,any agricultural, manufixctured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Grand _ Duchy of Luxemburg pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the roducts thereof, and that the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other produfclts of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equiv ent: · Minimum mmptx Now,TnEREronE, I,Wrr.LrAMHowAm>TAm·, President of theUnited £·iiiiiliiim;:1m§ States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby mage lmown 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 the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg imrgoses no terms or restrictions u on the importation or sale in Luxem urg of the pfoducts of the Ilnited 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 Luxemburg 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; dggxiggg ugggg Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect mast American com- from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ‘“°’°°· that at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in`Luxemurg as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, pnd in theifurthleir event that a lproclamation by the President of such act, revo the resent roc amation shall ave been issued. IN WITIIUIQSS QVHERIEOF I have,hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Donn at the City of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States of America the one hun ed and thirty-fourth. By the President: WM H Tm P C Knox Secretmjq of State.