116 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE.

aforesaid list will no longer allow us port and packing free, but will give us
in 1913 under the form of a quarterly credit the following supplementary
allowances, said allowances being port and packing for Paris:
0.04 per meter for goods up to 50 Cm. in width
0.08 per meter for goods from 51 to 81 Cm. in width.
0.16 per meter for goods over 81 Cm. in width.
The discount allowance on stocks will not be granted after the 1st of April,
1918, on “any plain velvets or plushes, but faconné velvets and plushes will be
sold with this allowanee during the entire year 1913.
At the end of the years 1913, 1914, and 1915 the successive rebates due, based
solely on the net total of the business done during each one of these years
with all the velvet manufacturers taken together whose names are carried on
the list will be paid at the following rate:
4 per cent on business over 20,001 francs.
5 per cent on business over 50,001 francs.
5 per cent on business over 100,001 francs.
This progressive rebate at the end of the year will not be due us unless we
have made delivery of all the orders placed, respectively, by all the manufac--urers
 aforesaid in 1913, 1914, and 1915, before the 31st of December, and
inless we have filled all our engagements relative to the disposition and de-‘ivery
 of stocks ordered before the 1st of February.
This rebate will not be paid to us unless we have fulfilled the conditions to
which we bind ourselves as given below:
A. We agree not to pay back this rebate, either in part or in whole, to our
business connections or to other clients. This rebate being in the nature of
a personal advantage we further agree not to group ourselves with other houses
in order to make our purchases together so as to profit in this manner by a
rebate greater than that to which we would be directly entitled.
B. We bind ourselves further to keep to ourselves at least as a minimum
profit the sum total of this rebate, whatever it may be. ,
C. We agree equally to recognize the prices of resale which you have fixed
for us on certain special articles.
Outside of the two groups of manufacturers certain velvet and cotton goods
classed as velvets may be bought, as also the velvets and plushes faconnég,
plush for furniture, and collar velvets.
F. Once a year at least book experts (expert accountants) will make an inspection
 to verify the accounts. In case of a refusal to allow them every
privilege the advantages of the contract will be lost either for the current
year or for the years following.
These argeements are entered into for 8 years from the 1st of January to:
the 31st of December, 1915, between—
1. The two groups of manufacturers represented by Mr. Caboud; and
2. The group defending the interests of Parisian commerce in silks, ribbons,
and velvets represented by its agents. ‘
3. The manufacturers who sell without rebates velvets and plushes to a part
of their clientele have demanded of all their buyers not to sell to this same
clientele at a price below the ane at which they themselves sell to them.
4. The purchase price less cash discount and the 4 per cent allowance will
be the lowest price at which the goods can be resold.
5. The Parisian merchants and manufacturers have named overseers whose
duty it is to verify their operations. Each buyer must hold his books at the
disposition of the overseer (inspector). -
6. Penalties: The arbitral tribunal.
7. The court deciding the cases will be composed of two umpires, one of which *
will be chosen by the buyer. One will be designated either by the manufacturers
 or by the members of the group, E. Bouton or M. Brach or E. Giron or
M. Millet.
In case of a disagreement a third judge will be either Mr. Ducreux, notary
and member of the court of appeal, 1 Rue de Céerisiles, or M. Mayer, 56 bis, Rue
de Chareaudun.
8. Duration of the contract of the 1st of January, 1913. In case that the
nnderstanding between the members of the group and the two groups of manupacturers
 should come to an end before the proper date, or the contract should
be rightfully done away with for any reason, nevertheless, the members should
be informed before the 1st of December of each year by registered letter.