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RECIPROCITY (Lat. reciprocus, returning back the same way, alternating, probably from re back and pro forward)

RECIPROCITY (See also:
LAT
Lat. reciprocus, returning back the same way, alternating, probably from re back and See also:
PRO
pro forward) , the See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition or See also:

state of being reciprocal, i.e. where there is give and take, mutual See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence or See also:

correspondence between two parties, persons or things. In a more particular sense, reciprocity is a See also:

SPECIAL

special arrangement between two nations under which the citizens of each obtain advantages or privileges in their trading relations with the other. This meaning of reciprocity, however, bears a different See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation in See also:

EUROPEAN

European and in See also:

AMERICAN

American usage. In the former, reciprocity between two nations usually means little more than the See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension by one to the other of most favoured nation treatment, i.e. such advantages as it extends to any third See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country (see COMMERCIAL See also:

TREATIES

TREATIES). ' See J. C. Branner's The See also:

Stone Reefs of See also:

Brazil (Bul. Comp. ZoUl., Harvard Univ., xliv., See also:

Cambridge, 1904). But in the See also:

UNITED

United States reciprocity is the See also:

TERM

term applied to the concessions or arrangements made between that country and another without reference to any third country. Thus in the United States there are a maximum and minimum See also:

TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff, the rates of the maximum tariff being enforced on the goods of those countries which have no reciprocity treaty with the United States, and the rates of the minimum on certain products of those countries which have by a reciprocity treaty given special advantages or concessions to certain products of the United States.

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