380 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE,
be done without sacrificing any of the essential advantages of concerted
 action and without altering the fundamental policy of the antitrust
 laws or interfering with their enforcement.
As safeguards against the dangers of such organizations it is recommended
 specifically that the kind of cooperative associations or organizations
 permitted be clearly defined; that they be restricted
solely to export business as distinguished from domestic business;
that they be limited to the activities of selling goods as distinguished
from their production or manufacture; and that the term “export
trade” be defined to mean solely trade or commerce in goods, wares,
or merchandise exported and be specifically stated not to include
the production or manufacture of such goods, wares, or merchandise
or any act in their production or manufacture. It is also recommended
 that as a condition precedent to enjoying the benefit of such
legislation every such cooperative organization be required, under
penalty, to file promptly with the Federal Trade Commission a writben
 statement setting forth the essential facts concerning its organization,
 such as name, location of its offices and places of business,
names and addresses of its officers and stockholders or members, and
a copy of its articles of incorporation and by-laws, if incorporated, or
a copy of its articles of contract or association, if unincorporated.
The Commission has the authority now to require such reports, but
it should not be burdened with the work of discovering such organizations
 and requesting information from them. The burden of furishing
 the required facts as to their organization should rest upon
those who expect to enjoy the benefit of this law. Having these facto
»efore it, the Commission could then use the power it already has to
require other reports in such detail as may be necessary to inform it
[ully of the activities of such cooperative bodies and to place it in a
position to take such action as the public interest might require, -
[t is also recommended, in order that there may be no possible
doubt about the law, that the prohibitions concerning the use of
unfair methods of competition contained in the Federal Trade Commission
 act be specifically extended to apply to export trade, even
though the acts constituting such unfair methods be done outside
of the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Restrictions and safeguards of these kinds have been suggested
and advised by the great majority of the thousands of business men
reached by the Commission in its study. Manufacturers generally
express no wish to attempt to use such organizations to exploit the
market at home, but indicate their desire to see any such attempt,
guarded against. Moreover, numerous manufacturers state that,
owing to the nature of their products, or to the fact that they are
already well established in foreign markets, they themselves would
not care to join. cooperative export organizations but that they