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2552 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. revisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, girectly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such fore1gn_ country of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and such foreign country pays no export bounty or imposes no explort duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States whrc unduly discnmmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the . agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United tates treatment which rs reci rocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this effect by the President of 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 Tutmla), from such foreign country shal , except as otherwise herem provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. · AND Wnmznas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of Korea imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way of tariff rates or rovisions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any officr- manner, directly or in irectly, upon the importation into or the sale in Korea of any agicultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States, w `ch unduly discrirninate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Govemment of Korea pays no export bounty or no export duty or rohibition upon the exportation of· any artic e to the United States wlliich unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Korea. accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and eaurvalentz ummm wasp: Now, Tnnnarorm, l, Wmaau owssn Tm, President of the gigbrfux im United States of America, b virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, JL hereby make known and proclaimthat from and after March 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of Korea imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Korea of the roducts of the United States which unduly discriminate a ainst the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or any of its ossessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam an<i)Tutuila), from orea shall 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 A t 5, 1909; d Revvutm ¤$g: Provided, however, that this proclamation shag not take effect spmaamsruneom. 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 Government of Korea has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Korea as to discriminate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoldng the present proclamation, s all have been issued. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dorm at the City of Washington, this first da of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and ten, and ofy the Independence of [snare] the United States of America the one hundred and thirty- fourth. Wu H Tarr By the President: P C Knox Secretary of State.