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realize their value for many other lines and are in favor of them.
They merely ask that they themselves be assured against unfair
methods of competition from such organizations. The business
men who have expressed opposition to such restrictive safeguards
are relatively few.
In making these recommendations the Commission does not
intend to intimate that there should be any change in the present
policy of this Government to prevent combinations in restraint of
trade in domestic business and to insist upon fair competition in
such business.
The Commission is confident that the enactment of such legislation
as that outlined above will permit the development of the cooperative
organization which must take place if the manufacturers and producers
 of the United States are to compete with foreigners on more
equal terms in export trade. It is also confident that this essential
development can be obtained without harmful effects on the domestic
market and without prejudice to the interests of American concerns
which conduct their export business outside of any combination.