By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the French Republic have entered into an additional Commercial Agreement, signed on the 28th day of January, 1908, by which the application of the minimum rate under the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States, approved July 24, 1897, to champagne and all other sparkling wines is provided for in return for certain specified concessions in favor of products of the United States, including Porto Rico, which concessions, in the judgment of the president, are reciprocal and equivalent:
Therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred [Page 331] by said Act of Congress, do hereby conditionally suspend, from the first day of February, 1908, and during the time and in accordance with the terms of the aforesaid Additional Agreement, signed January 28th, 1908, 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 France; and do declare in place thereof the rates of duty provided in the third section of said Act to be in force, as follows:
On Champagne and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing not more than one quart and more than one pint, six dollars per dozen; containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half pint, three dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to six dollars per dozen bottles of the quantities in excess of one quart, at the rate of one dollar and ninety cents per gallon.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[seal.]
By the President:
Elihu Root
Secretary of State.