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

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

condition

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

or state of being reciprocal, i.e. where there is give and take, mutual

influence

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

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

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 interpretation in European and in American usage. In the former, reciprocity between two nations usually means little more than the extension by one to the other of most favoured nation treatment, i.e. such advantages as it extends to any third country (see COMMERCIAL

TREATIES

TREATIES

).
' See J. C. Branner's The Stone Reefs of Brazil (Bul. Comp. ZoUl., Harvard Univ., xliv.,

Cambridge

, 1904).
But in the United States reciprocity is the

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

tariff

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)

, the rates of the maximum

tariff

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)

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

SPECIAL

advantages or concessions to certain products of the United States.

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