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agreements or arrangements made in accordance with the provisions of section three of the tariff Act of the United States approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,

which contain no stipulations in regard to their termination by diplomatic action,

the President is authorized to give to the governments concerned a notice of termination of six months,

which notice shall date from April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

SEC. 5. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands

the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries: Provided, That, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, all articles, the growth or product of or manufactured in the Philippine Islands from materials the growth or product of the Philippine Islands or of the United States, or of both, or which do not contain foreign materials to the value of more than twenty per centum of their total value,

upon which no drawback of customs duties has been allowed therein,

coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands shall hereafter be admitted..

except rice, and except, in any fiscal year,

free of duty,

sugar in excess of three hundred thousand gross tons, wrapper tobacco and

filler tobacco when mixed or packed with more than fifteen per centum of wrapper tobacco

in excess of three hundred thousand pounds,

filler tobacco in excess of one million pounds, and

cigars in excess of one hundred and fifty million cigars,

which quantities shall be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe:

And provided further, That sugar, refined or unrefined, and tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured,

imported into the Philippine Islands from foreign countries, shall be dutiable at rates of import duty therein not less than

the rates of import duty imposed upon sugar and tobacco in like forms when imported into the United States :

And provided further, That, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury,

preference in the right of free entry of sugar to be imported into the United States from the Philippine Islands, as provided herein,

shall be given, first, to the producers of less than five hundred gross tons in any fiscal year,

then to producers of the lowest output in excess of five hundred gross tons in any fiscal year :

Provided, however, That in consideration of the exemptions aforesaid,

all articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States,

upon which no drawback of customs duties has been allowed therein,

shall be admitted to the Philippine Islands from the United States.... free of duty:

And provided further, That the free admission, herein provided, of such articles,

the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States. into the Philippine Islands,

or of the growth, product, or manufacture, as hereinbefore defined, of the Philippine Islands

into the United States,

shall be conditioned upon the direct shipment thereof from the country of origin to the country of destination:

Provided, That direct shipment shall include shipments in bond through foreign territory contiguous to the United States:

Provided, however, That if such articles become unpacked while en route by accident, wreck, or other casualty,

or so damaged as to necessitate their repacking,

the same shall be admitted free of duty upon satisfactory proof that the unpacking occurred through accident or necessity

and that the merchandise involved is the identical merchan dise originally shipped from the United States or the Philippine Islands, as the case may be, and

that its condition has not been changed except for such damage as may have been sustained:

And provided further, That all articles, the growth, product, or manufacture, as herein before defined, of the Philippine Islands,

admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty under the provisions of this section and

shipped as herein before provided from said islands to the United States for use and consumption therein,

shall be hereafter exempt from the payment of any export duties imposed in the Philippine Islands:

And provided further, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid, in the United States,

upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands,

a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the United States upon the like articles, goods, wares, or merchandise of domestic manufacture;

such tax to be paid by internal-revenue stamp or stamps, to be provided by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and to be affixed in such manner and under such regulations as he, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe; and

such articles, goods, wares, or merchandise,

shipped from said islands to the United States,

shall be exempt from the payment of any tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws of the Philippine Islands:

And provided further, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid in the Philippine Islands,

upon articles, goods, wares. or merchandise going into the Philippine Islands from the United States,

a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the Philippine Islands upon the like articles, goods, wares, or merchandise of Philippine Islands manufacture;

such tax to be paid by internal-revenue stamps or otherwise, as provided by the laws in the Philippine Islands, and such articles, goods, wares, or merchandise going into the Philippine Islands from the United States shall be exempt from the payment of any tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws of the United States:

And provided further, That, in addition to the customs taxes imposed in the Philippine Islands,

there shall be levied, collected, and paid therein upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise,

imported into the Philippine Islands from countries other than the United States,

the internal revenue tax imposed by the Philippine government on like articles manufactured and consumed in the Philippine Islands

or shipped thereto, for consumption therein, from the United States:

And provided further, That from and after the passage of this Act

all internal revenues collected in or for account of the Philippine Islands shall accrue intact to the general government thereof and be paid into the Insular treasury, and

shall only be allotted and paid out therefrom in accordance with future acts of the Philippine legislature,

subject, however, to section seven of the Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes:"

And provided further, That, until action by the Philippine legislature, approved by Congress,

internal revenues paid into the Insular treasury, as hereinbefore provided, shall be allotted and paid out by the Philippine Commission.

SEC. 6. That whenever any country, dependency, colony, province or other political subdivision of government

shall pay or bestow, directly or indirectly, any bounty or grant

upon the exportation of any article or merchandise from such country, dependency, colony, province or other political subdivision of government,

and such article or merchandise is dutiable under the provisions of this Act,

then upon the importation of any such article or merchandise into the United States,

whether the same shall be imported directly from the country of production or otherwise,

and whether such article or merchandise is imported in the same condition as when exported from the country of production

or has been changed in condition by remanufacture or otherwise,

there shall be levied and paid, in all such cases,

in addition to the duties otherwise imposed by this Act,

an additional duty equal to the net amount of such bounty or grant, however the same be paid or bestowed.

The net amount of all such bounties or grants shall be from time to time ascertained, determined, and declared by the Secretary of the Treasury,

who shall make all needful regulations for the identification of such articles and merchandise and for the assessment and collection of such additional duties.

SEC. 7. That all articles of foreign manufacture or production, which are

capable of being marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, without injury,

shall be marked, stamped, branded, or labeled in legible English words,

in a conspicuous place that shall not be covered or obscured by any subsequent attachments or arrangements,

so as to indicate the country or origin.

Said marking, stamping, branding, or labeling shall be as nearly indelible and permanent as the nature of the article will permit.

All packages containing imported articles shall be marked, stamped, branded, or labeled

so as to indicate legibly and plainly, in English words,

the country of origin and the quantity of their contents, and until marked in accordance with the directions prescribed in this section

no articles or packages shall be delivered to the importer.

Should any article or package of imported merchandise be marked, stamped, branded, or labeled

so as not accurately to indicate the quantity, number or measurement actually contained in such article or package, no delivery of the same shall be made to the importer until the mark, stamp. brand, or label, as the case may be, shall be changed so as to conform to the facts of the case.

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