which were provisions of the open door policy? check all that apply.
1. all foreign countries had to pay taxes equally.
2. foreign countries with spheres of influence in china were exempt from taxes.
3. only the chinese government could collect tariffs on trade.
4. countries with a sphere of influence should maintain free access to their ports.
5. the united states would oversee the continuance of the open door policy.

The correct items:

1. All foreign countries had to pay taxes equally.  

3. Only the Chinese government could collect tariffs on trade.  

4. Countries with a sphere of influence should maintain free access to their ports.

The Open Door policy was issued by the United States in 1899-1900 as a series of dispatches from the US Secretary of State to other nations that had trading interests in China --  Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia.  The policy reasserted earlier agreements that all countries should have equal access to ports in China, without undue preference to "spheres of influence" for one nation or another.  The United States was seeking to maintain an equal footing with other nations in the access to trade in China.  

the correct answer is history and tradition.