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This article is about the former U.S. law. For the similar Canadian law, see Chinese Immigration Act of 1923.

The first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. This law was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943.