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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 13, 1910.
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No. 142. The following is published for general information.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.
13th May, 1910.
[MINIMUM TARIFF-GREAT BRITAIN-HONGKONG AND KOWLOON.]
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By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
HEREAS it is provided in the Act of Congress approved August 5, 1909, entitled "An Act to provide revenus, equalize 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 this section, there shall be levied. collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States, or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine 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 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 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 in- directly, 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 export duty or prohibition upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manu- factured, 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 Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), from such foreign country shall, 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 Art.
And Whereas satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Hongkong and Kowloon imposes no terms or restric- tions, 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 Hongkong and Kowloon of any agricultural, inanufactured, or other product of the United States, which unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Hongkong and Kowloon pays no export bounty or imposes no export duty or prohibiton upon the exportation of any article to the United States which unduly discriminates against the United States or the products thereof, and that the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Hongkong and Kowloon accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent :
Now, Therefore. I, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, President of the United tates of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that from and after March 1, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress is in existence and the Government of His Britannic Majesty with respect to Hongkong and Kowloon imposes no terms or restrictions upon the importation or sale in Hongkong and Kowloon of the products of the United States which unduly