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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2649 Br THE PnESmENT or- rmi: UNrrE1> STATES or Amnmca. Mem ’8· 191**- A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress aplproved August p,'£§'cl?§’§}@‘§,$?,‘§,l 5, 1909, entitled " n _Act To provide revenue, equa ize duties and I¤,*§§;;_mb,e_ encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- Am, p. sz poses "——· • That from and after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreigfi country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine slands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the_schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-tive per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country 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 mto or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other plroduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no exgort duty or prohibition upon t 0 exportation of any article to the United States w ich 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 any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, 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. . AND WHEREAS Satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of the French _Republ1c imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provnsions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other_manner, directly or indirectly, upon t 10 importation into or the sale in the French Settlements in India of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to the French Settlements 1_n India palys no export ounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon_t ie exportation of any artic e to the United States w ich unduly discrimi nates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the French Republic with respect to the French Settlements in India accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: - _ Now, Tnmnnronn, 1, Wrntnm Howsnn Tam, President of the P,,¤gg{;¤¤rg) ¤¤,;¥p°=;g UnitedStates of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the from ramen same aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that m°"‘“°I"d”‘ from and after March 31, 1910, and so longithereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence andthe overnment_of the rench Republic imposes no terms or_restr1ctions upon the importation or sale in the French Settlements in India 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 the French Settlements in India 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;