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II. Summary of replies—Continued.
Foreign combinations competing with American export trade—Contd.
Advantages of foreign combinations enhanced by aid from transportation
 companies and banks. .. #5 FEE
Bympathy and aid given foreign combinations by their Governments.
Combinations in particular industries. .
Bacon (Denmark)........
Butter (Denmark and England)..
Carbon products (Germany)..... ee
Cement (England, Germany, France, and Belgium). .........
Chemicals and dyestuffs (Germany)...........ooo.o. .........
Chinaware and embroidery (France and Switzerland). ...........
Coal (Germany and England).. Br HA we =
Electrical machinery and apparatus (Germany, principally)......
Fertilizers (Europe)......
Flour (Germany and France) ..
Hardware—pliers and nippers (Germany)... .
Iron and steel (Germany, principally). .
Leather tanners (England)...
Sole-leather tanners (Austria).
Glazed-kid trade (Germany)..... .....
Metals other than iron and steel (Europe). .
Musical instruments. .
Qils, mineral........
Optical goods (Germany and England). .
Paper._.....
Pottery (England)..
Silk ribbons (Germany)
Spool cotton (Scotland).......... eee
Tobacco (Great Britain, France, Italy, Austria. Spain).........
Toys (Germany). ..
Velvet (Germany, France, Austria)....
Wire cloth (Germany).. —
Spruce, hemlock, and soft woods (Austria, Roumania, and Bosnia).
Lumber (Germany, Belgium. and Canada).
Chairs (Austria). . .
Bedsteads (England)... ..
Woven wall coverings (Scotland)...
Effects on American exports of combinations of buyers abroad. ......
Buving combinations in particular industries.
Chemicals, fertilizers, ete
Conl... caus
Cotton........ . _...
Cottonseed products...
Foodstuffs. . .
Leathers, manufactures of. ... ..
Lumber and manufactures of wood.
Machinery..........
Meat products. -..
Metals. ..........
Musical instruments... ...___
Naval stores.....  ..........
Textiles, fabrics. etc.

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