Reciprocity

Mutuality; state, qualiprocity. The constitution requires that they shall deliver to each other fugitives from justice; 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 immunities 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 enter into reciprocal agreements with foreign countries, concerning the mutual importation of manufactures and products, and to suspend 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 encourage the export trade of this country, the President is authorized and empowered to negotiate trade agreements with foreign nations wherein mutual concessions are made looking toward freer trade relations and further reciprocal expansion of trade and commerce, 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.