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Peru:
Special report of Consul General William H. Handley, Callao-Lima, Peru,
January 24, 1916..........
General business conditions in Peru.
Operations of the Peruvian Corporation (Ltd.).
Venezuela: ~
Special report of Consul Homer Brett, La Guaira, Venezuela, November
9,1915......
Sugar syndicate. . _
Foreign combinations. ...._.
British and Dutch Guiana:
Special report of Consul Georze E. Chamberlain, Georgetown, British
Guiana, October 30. 1915...
British Guiana. . . .
Dutch Guiana.

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ASIA.

Japan:
Special report of Vice Consul Harold C. Huggins, Yofohama, J apan, November
 25, 1915. .
The guild system..
The Tea Guild. . ; el
Government regulations under which tea associations are organized.....

Agreements of the Central Tea Association. . een
Agreements of the Shidzuoka-Ken Joint Tea Association. .....
Other conditions. . .
Chosen (Korea): |
Special report ¢f Consul General Ransford S. Miller, Seoul, Chosen (Korea) y
November 9, 1915...
Weights and measures. .
Ginseng monopoly. ..
Salt manufacture. .
Timber undertaking........
Foreign combinations. .
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Tobacco...........
The South Manchuria Railway Co. . .
Government attitude toward industry. ..
China:
Special report rendered by William B. Webster and approved by the
American minister, Paul S. Reinsch, Peking, China, January 15, 1916...
Organization of domestic trade of China. .
Foreign combinations in China. .
International combinations. .
Foreign investments in China.... .
Governmental development of Chinese export trade...
The British Engineers’ Association. .
The scope, objects, and constitution.
The association’s work in China.
The objects. ...ccveeaean oo...
The qualifications for membership.........
The immediate advantages of membership. .

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