Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 2.djvu/1237

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2678 p PBOCLAMATIONS, 1910. the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-five_per centum ad valotem• which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thiig-first day of March,_nineteen hundred and ten, and solongthereafter as the President all be satisfied, in vrew of the character of the concemions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imtpleses no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, mae or o er regulations, charges, exactions, pr in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such orengn 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 no export bounty. or imposes no exgort dutg or probibitiou upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich un uly 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 w en nmported into the United States, or any of its pomemions (except the Philippine · Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such fore' coungig shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms eign the um tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. ~ _ Arm Wmms satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of New Zealand imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or grovisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner directly or upon the importation into 61* the sale in New Zealand of any agric? tural, manuactured, or other Igoduct of the United States, which uggugr discrmimate against the nited States or the products thereof, 8 t at the Government of New Zealand pays no export bounty or imposes no exploit du? or prohibition ulpon the exportation of any artncle to the n1ted tates which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof and that the Government of ° New Zealand accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: ¥¤g=¤¤g,:E§ng ow, Tnmznroan, I, Wruram Howsnn Tam, President of the _ Kemuliiiwaw z United States of America, gy virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, o hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 31_, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Con,<_ireess is in existezgce and thehGovémment of New Zealand poses no rms or rostnc ions upon the importation or sal in New %aland of the products of the United States which unduly (discriminate algamst the United_States, all articles when imported into the Umte States or any of its (possessions (except the Phili pine Islands and the islands of Guam an Tutuila), from New Zealand shall be ad- · mitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Section one of the Tariff Act of the United States ap- " d prc1§;ed13.g§·u§t 5, 1909 I I ¤¤ ¤· ovi , owever, t at this roclamation shall n t t k if t fr quam mnmmt and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and voidoin Ehsgvgiit thing: "‘”°" at any t1me prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Government of New Zealand has rnade such change or changes in its present laws or regulations ail’ect— ing American commerce u1 New Zealand as to discriminate unduly rn any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation bg the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEBEOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, A. D. one thousand nine_ hundred and ten, and of the Inde- [situ,.] pgxédaniccz oithlgtglmted States of America the one hundred y- 0 . . W H T By the President: I An - P C Knox Secretary of Side.