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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2535 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 im es no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or provisions, trade or oth; 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 no export bounty or imposes no explort duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States w ich un uly d1s- criminates 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, u n proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles whgn imported into the United States, or any of its possemions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such fore' n country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms iid 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 Indian Empire 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 the Indian Empire of any `culturallj manufactured, or other product of the United States, vggidh unduly discriminate against the United States ' or the products thereof, and ·that the Government of the Indian Empire pays no export bounty or imposes no eipport duty or prohibition u on the exportation of apy article to the nited States which undul discriminates against the nited States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Indian Empire accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and eauivalent: Now, Trmnnroan, I, Wrnnmu owann Tarr, President of the ,fg§l§""§, "{§ if; United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Km MN E*°Pl:· aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make 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 the Indian Em ire imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in tlhe Indian Empire of the products o 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 Indian Empire 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 An ust 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this pr0cIamation shall not take effect d,§ff{,,°Y,’§,°§§,§' "§‘,°,,'§§ from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event £g¤•§*A=¤¤**¤¤¤ °°¤¤· that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence ` shall be presented to the President that the Government of the Indian Empire has made such change or changes in its resent laws or regulations affecting American commerce in the Indian Empire as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation b the President of such fact, revokin the present proclamation, shally have been issued. IN WITNESS VHER OF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. · Dorm at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of Februa , A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of ge [sEA1..] Inde ndence of the United States of America, the one hundred and thirty-fourth. Wu H Tam By the President: P C Kuox Secretary of State.