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2546 — PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. tured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reci rocal and equivalent: _ 1¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ •v· Nibw, Tnnnmroan, I, WILLIAM HOWARD Tam, President of the Ehlgbdmwtgnimwm United States of America, by virtue of the power In me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby ma e known and proclaim that from and after March 31, 1910, and so longx thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Guatemala imposes no terms or restrictions uplon the Importation or sale in Guatemala of the products of the nited States which unduly discriminate against the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of ICS possessions (except the Phili pine Islands and the islands o Guam and Tutuila), from Guatemala 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 August 5, 1909; dlggzggtamugf 9-%: Provided, however, that this proclamation shall not_ take effect gainsn Amnrlcancom- from and after March 31, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event '“‘”"°· that, at any time prior to the aforesaid date, satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the President that the Govemment of Guatemala has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce m Guatemala as to discriminate unduly in any way a ainst such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation g the President of such fact, revoking the pres- ' ent reclamation, shall have been issued. IIS WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to_ be aflixed. DONE at the City of Washington, this twenty-first day of Februaxg, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and [sun.] of the Indep-endence of the United States of America the one hun ed and thirty-fourth. - Wm H Tam By the President: Huirrrsorou WILSON Acting Secretary of State. February 21.1910- BY rmt PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF Ammuca. A PROCLAMATION. 'l‘¤rl¤¤¤E¢•¤d¤¤¤•¤ WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of C0 ess a roved An st min. 5, 1909, entitled "Xn Act To provide reveniligf equglgze duties iliid ·""°·P·”· encouiiage the Industries of the United States, and for other purposes —— That from and after the thirty-first_day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provIded_ for ID this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when Imported from augloreign country into the United States, or Into any of 1lZS possessions (except the P Ilippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the United States: Provided, That whenever, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hu¤· dred 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 a.ny_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 botixity or imposes no ex rt dut 01* sjrpchibxtion npon_the exportation ol any article to the United States which undluly riminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign