Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 2.djvu/1196

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PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2637 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. umn 24,1910. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovided in the Act of Congress approved August '1`°"“* °” g,‘°‘*“°” °* 5, 1909, cutitlcgl "Xn Act To provide revenue, equalgzo duties and m;°r=¤°$¤"ls6l:. ` encourage the industries of the United States, and for other pur- *""‘·*"”‘ posas"— That from and after the thirty-iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, except as otherwise specially provided for in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from an foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the llhiliptgins Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila.), the rates of duty prescribed by 0 schedules and paragm. hs of the dutiable list of section one of this Act, and in addition thereto twenty-Eve r centum ad valorem; which rates shall constitute the maximum tariff of the lllenited States: Promkled, That whenever, after the thirty-first da of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall he satisfied, in view of the character of the conccssnons granted by the minimum tariff oi 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 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 tho United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign c0u11t.ry_p&y¤ no export bounty or imposes no exlport du? or rohibitiou upon the exgprtatxou of any article to the United States w ich un uly criscriminates against the uited 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 upon proclamation to this effect by the President of the United States, all articles when into the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islan s and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foroi country shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms oin the mimmum tariff of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. AND WHEREAS satisfactory evidence has been presented to mo that the Government of the l’rmc1pality of Iaicchtensteiu imposes 110 terms or restrictions, either nn the way of txmff rates or PTOVISIOIIS, trade or other regulations, charges, cxa.ctions,_or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or tho sale in Liechtenstein of any agricultural, manu acturcd, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against t 0 United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of tho Principality of Liechtenstein pays no export bounty or imposes 110 export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminatcs against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of the Principnlity of Liechtenstein accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is rc§procal and equivalent: ow, Trmmzromc, I, WHL1AM Howmw TAF’1‘, President of the [&¤&g¤¤¤g° wgpgg United States of America, by virtue of the power m mo vested by the li-nm mecnmumm. aforesaid Act of Qoniress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after Marc 31, 1910, and so long thereafter as tho aforesaid Act of Congress is in emstence and the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Liechtenstein of the products of the United States which unduldy discriminate against the United States, all articles when imggrtc intp the United States, or any of 1tS possessions (except t Philippine Islands a.nd_ tho islands of Guam and Tutuila), from Liechtenstein shall be admitted under the targus of the minimum tariff of the Uizutod States as prescribed by Section one of the T ariif Act of the United States approved August 5, 1909; Provided, however, that this ygoclamation shall not take effect R¤~$§¤¤ uugae from and after March 31, 1910, ut shall be {null and void in the ggajgg A,,,L}°,§,,, ,,0,,: event that, at any t1mo pmor to the aforsssud date, satisfactory mm-