RECIPROCITY. Mutuality ; state, quali ty, or character of that which is reciprocal. The states are bound to many acts of reci procity. The constitution requires that they shall deliver to each other fugitives from jus tice; that the records of one state, properly authenticated, shall have full credit in the other states ; that the citizens of one state shall be citizens of any state into which they may remove. Their privileges and immuni ties shall not be abridged by any state law.
See EXTRADITION; FOREIGN JUDGMENTS; PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES.
Between nations. Mutual concessions made by nations in favor of the importation of the products and manufactures of each other.
The president of the United States has been authorized by various tariff acts to en ter into reciprocal agreements with foreign countries, concerning the mutual importation of manufactures and products, and to sus pend certain provisions of the tariff laws, accordingly. For the purpose of readjusting
the present duties on importations into the United States and at the same time to en courage the export trade of this country, the President is authorized and empowered to negotiate trade agreements with foreign na tions wherein mutual concessions are made looking toward freer trade relations and fur ther reciprocal expansion of trade and com merce, but such agreements before becoming operative must be submitted to Congress for ratification or rejection. Act of Oct. 3, 1913.
Under the Copyright Act of 1909 he may determine the existence of certain conditions on which reciprocity shall exist ; Bong v. Art Co., 214 U. S. 236, 29 Sup. Ct. 628, 53 L. Ed. 979, 16 Ann. Cas. 1126.