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2566 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. Britannic Majesty with respect to Gibraltar has made such change or changes in its present laws or regulations affecting American commerce in Gibraltar as to discnmmate unduly in any way against such commerce, and in the further event that a proclamation by the President of such fact, revoking the present proclamation, shal 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 Washmtgton, this first doiy of March, A. D. one thousand nine hun red` and ten, an of the Independence [sun.,] of the United States of America the one hun red and thirty-fourth. WM H Tam By the President: P C KN0x Secretary of State. _ Rmb i.1910· - Br mn Pnnsrnnwr or run Uurrnn Srxrns or Anmmca. A PROCLAMATION. T¤"§°¤ P•'°·*¤°** °' WHEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August Oman. 5, 1909, entitled ‘ ‘ n Act To provide revenue, equ ze duties and ‘"‘"’ "‘ °* encourage 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 in tlus section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreigln country into the United States, or 1DtO any of its possessions (except the Philippme slands 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 hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall he satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of tho United States, that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either in the way o tariff rates or visions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or in any other manner, gigectly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such forei 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_;?1poses no export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of an article to the Um States which unduly discriminates against the United States or die 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 when imported into the United States or any of its possessions (except the Phili pine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tuturla), from such foreign country phali: except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. Ami Wnmznas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His Brntannic Majesty with respect to Cyprus 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 imfportation into or the sale in Cyprus of any agricultural , manufacture , or other Igoduct of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the nited States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Cyprus pays no export bounty or imposes H0 export duty or prohibition upon the oxportation of any artic e to the United States which unduly drscrimmates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britaumc