3. That the arrangement resulting from the proposed negotiations shall remain in force for fifteen years from the signature of the present Declaration.
At the expiration of this period, and failing a fresh Agreement, the Contracting Powers shall return to the conditions provided for by Article IV. of the General Act of Berlin, retaining the power of imposing duties up to a maximum of 10 per cent. upon goods imported into the conventional basin of the Congo.
The ratifications of the present Declaration shall be exchanged at the same time as those of the General Act of this day.
In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have drawn up the present Declaration, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done at Brussels, the 2nd day of the month of July, 1890.
[L. S.] Vivian, John Kirk, Alvensleben, Göhring, R. Khevenhüller, Lambermont, E. Banning, Schack de Brockdorff, J. G. de Aguera, Edm. van Eetvelde, A. van Malgeghem, A. Bourée, G. Cogordan, F. de Renzis, T. Catalani, L. Gericke, Henrique de Macedo, Pereiro Coutinho, L. Ouroussoff, Martens, Burenstam, Et Caratheodory.
TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION
His Majesty Leopold II., King of the Belgians, Sovereign of the Independent State of the Congo, and
The United States of America,
desiring to perpetuate, confirm and encourage the relations of commerce and of good understanding existing already between the two respective countries, by the conclusion of a treaty of amity, commerce, navigation and extradition, have for this purpose named as their respective Plenipotentiaries, viz.: