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PROcLAMA·r10Ns, 1910. 2521 im rtation into or the sale in such fore' coun fan 'cul uml ufactured or gfher product of the United States, vlngich untdiilcy agalinnglihe United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or dprohibition upon the exliprtation of any article to the United States which unduly iscnmmates 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, thereupon and thereafter, upxon proclamation to this effect by the President_ of the Unite States, all articles w en 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 shal , except as otherwise herem prov1ded,_ be admitted under the terms of the mimmum of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Aim Wrmnnas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Sweden 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 Sweden of any agricultural, manufactured, or other roduct of the United States, which undu] discriminate against the Uliiited States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Sweden pays no export bounty or imposes no ex ort dugy or prohibition ulpon the exportation of any article to the United tates which undu y discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Sweden accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent: Now, Tnmmroan, I, Wrnuam Howaan Tan, President of the “‘“’Z‘“'{‘,, *1‘,L',,$ United States of America, by virtue of the wer in me vested by glam S*•¤¤¤· the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby mah); known 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 Sweden imposes no terms or restrictions u on the importation or sale in Sweden of the roducts of the United) States which unduly discriminate against ilhe United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or an of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands ofy Guam and Tutuila), from Sweden sha be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by Sectgzn one of the Tariff Act of the United States · a roved An st 5, 1 9; pprovided, hldwever, that this proclamation shall not take effect d,s*;;,jn°g;$;:u;*¤:1jg: from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ¤e¤1nstAmsricmconithat, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence '“°'°"‘ shall be presented to the President that the Government of Sweden has made such change or changes in its present laws or_ regulations affecting American commerce in Sweden as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by Eh; Pretsident of (puck fact, revoking the present roc amation s a ave een issue . ' P IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. · DONE at the City of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of January, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of [SEAL.] the Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. W H T M A1:·’1* By the President: · P C Kwox Secretary tj State.