actions upon the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States, which, in view of the introduction of such coffee, tea, and tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans, and vanilla beans, into the United States, as in this Act hereinbefore provided for, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this Act relating to the free introduction of such coffee, tea, and tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans, and vanilla beans, of the products of such country or colony, for such time as he shall deem just; and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected, and paid upon coffee, tea, and tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans, and vanilla beans, the products or exports, direct or indirect, from such designated country, as follows: On coffee, three cents per pound. On tea, ten cents per pound. On tonquin, tonqua, or tonka beans, fifty cents per pound; vanilla beans, two dollars per pound; vanilla beans, commercially known as cuts, one dollar per pound. SEC. 4 That whenever the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, with a view to secure reciprocal trade with foreign countries, shall, within the period of two years from and after the passage of this Act, enter into commercial treaty or treaties with any other country or countries concerning the admission into any such country or countries of the goods, wares, and merchandise of the United States and their use and disposition therein, deemed to be for the interests of the United States, and in such treaty or treaties, in consideration of the advantages accruing to the United States therefrom shall provide for the reduction during a specified period, not exceeding five years, of the duties imposed by this Act, to the extent of not more than twenty per centum thereof, upon such goods, wares, or merchandise as may be designated therein of the country or countries with which such treaty or treaties shall be made as in this section provided for; or shall provide for the transfer during such period from the dutiable list of this Act to the free list thereof of such goods, wares, and merchandise, being the natural products of such foreign country or countries and not of the United States; or shall provide for the retention upon the free list of this Act during a specified period, not exceeding five years, of such goods, wares, and merchandise now included in said free list as may be designated therein; and when any such treaty shall have been duly ratified by the Senate and approved by Congress, and public proclamation made accordingly, then and thereafter the duties which shall be collected by the United States upon any of the designated goods, wares, and merchandise from the foreign country with which such treaty has been made shall, during the period provided for, be the duties specified and provided for in such treaty, and none other. APPENDIX 10 TEXT OF SECTION 2 OF AN ACT TO AMEND THE CUSTOMS TARIFF, 1907, of Canada, AssentED TO JUNE 30, 1923, AUTHORIZING RECIPROCITY NEGOTIA TIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES (From Memorandum, no. 32 (revised), July 5, 1923, Department of Customs and Excise.) 2. The Customs Tariff, 1907, is amended by inserting the following sections immediately after section eight A thereof, as enacted by section two of chapter twenty-seven of the statutes of 1921 "8B. The Governor in Council may authorize any Minister of the Crown to enter into negotiations with any authorized representative of the Government of the United States with a view to the making of a commercial agreement between the two countries on terms that may be deemed mutually beneficial. Any agreement so made shall be subject to the approval of the Parliament of Canada. "8c. If the President of the United States, under authority of the United States Tariff Act of 1922, determines to reduce the duties imposed by such Act on the following articles, that is to say: Cattle; wheat; wheat flour; oats; barley; potatoes; onions; turnips; hay; fish as enumerated in paragraphs 717, 718, 719 and 720 of the said Tariff Act of 1922, the Governor in Council may by Order in Council make such reductions of duties on such articles imported into Canada from the United States as may be deemed reasonable by way of compensation for such reductions on Canadian products imported into the United States." 384 [594 INDEX Reference numbers are to pages of "A New American Commercial Abbreviations: n, footnote; q, quoted; U. S., United States. British Dominions, 219, 220, 312. British East Indies, 318n British Empire. See individual British Guiana, 39, 96 British West Indies, 96, 181, 217, Brussels, conference of, 1890, 40, Calcium acetate, 154 Canada, in general, 49, 100, 149, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 161, Discriminatory provisos, 162, Imperial preference, 34, 213, 219- Reciprocity with U. S., 91, 92, British West Indies, 217, 220 Union of South Africa, 219 Canary Islands, 225, 280; La Luz Capitulations. See Turkey Cassel, Gustav, q, 134, 135, 136n Cement, 155, 229, 230 Central America, 173, 274, 307- Cereals, 107. See Foodstuffs Chile, 308n, 324, 326n, 357 China, 40, 156, 175, 197, 2001, 224, 230, 240, 241, 243-247, 320, Choate, Joseph H., 244 Classification (tariff), 37, 39, 134, Clerical errors, penalties for, 324 Cliff Paper Co. v. U. S., 186n Colby, Bainbridge, q. 249 28, 29; excluded from dis- Free trade, 104, 105, 220, 265, Protection, 102, 103, 104, 105, 133-139, 165, 206, 219, 222 Assimilation, 189, 223, 224, 226 Bargaining, 91-101, 102, 205- See Differential. See Equality of ence Double column, 34, 35, 257. General-conventional, 35, 205, Import duties (in general, re- Intermediate, 213-215, 357-370 Retaliation, 36n, 72, 114, 137, Single-schedule, 210, 257 Uniformity; 127, 314. 323, 321. Clocks, 216n, 229 Coal, 155. 156, 218, 300 Cobden, Richard, q. 123 Cobden Treaty, 123, 205, 254-255, See 265, 313 Cocoa, 216, 290 Coffee, 92, 93, 95, 190, 216n, 229, 285, 290, 309, 311, 370, 381,382 Classification, "Conting- ents". Customs formalities, |