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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2539 9 tion upon the exportation of any article to the United 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 reci rocal and uivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect liiy 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 under 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 Greece 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 Greece 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 Greece pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article ' to the United_States which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Greece accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ` Now, Tmznmroam, 1, W11.L1Au Howann Tam, President of the ,§{g{;¤¤*{° *¤{g*p°gg United States of America, by virtue of the ower in me vested by the fiom arms aforesaid Act of Co ess, do hereby make lknown and proclaim that from and after Mariizir 31, 1910, and so lo thereafter as the afores said Act of Congress is in existence and libc Government of Greece imposes no terms or restrictions_upon the importation or sale in Greece,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 Phili Eine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from greece shallp e 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 A ust 5, 1909; `§rovided, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect ,,,§;$m;§,f}§,,§ “,{d_gg from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the ¤s¤¤¤¤=Am·rrc¤¤ comevent that, at any time rior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory m°'°°‘ evidence shall be presentedp to the President that the Government of ` Greece has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Greece 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 presenzvproclamation, shall have been issued. IN ITN ESS 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-first day of February, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the [SEAL.] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. - WM H Tam By the President: HUNTINGTON WILSON · Acting Secretary of State.