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2558 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. ‘ resented to the President that the Government of the German ` Empire with respect to Kamerun has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Kamerun as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a procamation by the President of such fact, revokin the resent lproclamatron, shall have been issued. IN WITNESS Vl$HEIi)EOF have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to affixed. Domi: at the City of Washington, this first day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the Independ- [snsn] ence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth, Wm H Tam By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State. ¤¤¤¤ L mil- BY mm Pnnsmnrrr or rmt Umrnn Srarns or Anmmoa. A PROCLAMATION. o§i¤°i'§n°°s·%?°vi$¤Q°i WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August WMP bh 5, 1909, entitled “An Act Tolprovide revenue, epuahze duties an en- Ase. it vi courage the industries of the mted States, and or other purposes "— That from and after the thirt ·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 foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tuturla), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act. and in addition themto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tarid 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 into or the sale in such foreign country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays D0 export bountylor imposes no ex rt duty or prohibition upon the e{portation of any article to the nited States whiciifunduly discriminates against the mted 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, thereu n and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the UnitedxStates, all articles when im rted into the United States, or anyaof its possessions (except the Philippine Island:) and the islands of Guam and Tutui ), from such foreign country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum taridp 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 German South- West Africa imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or other regulations, cha es, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon lgie importation into or the sale in German South-West Africa of any agricultural, manufactured, or other ppoduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the mted States or the products thereof, and t at the Government of the German Empire with respect to German South-West Africa pays no export bounty or im ses 110 export duty or prolubition upon the exportation of any articlle) to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of the German Empire with respect to German South-West Africa accords to the