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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the German Government has entered into a Commercial Agreement
with the United States in conformity with the provisions of the third
section of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897,
by which agreement in the judgment of the President reciprocal and
equivalent concessions are secured in favor of the products of the
United States:
Therefore, be it known that I, William McKinley, President of the United
States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said act of
Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said
agreement the imposition and collection of the duties imposed by the
first section of said act upon the articles hereinafter specified, being
the products of the soil and industry of Germany; and do declare in
place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third section of said
act to be in force and effect from and after the date of this
proclamation, as follows, namely:
"Upon argols, or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, five _per centum
ad valorem_.
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