332 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE,
(¢) Do you understand that the prohibition (if any) applies to cooperation
In selling noncompeting products as well as competing products?
2. (a) Are you now exporting through a joint selling agency in which you
cooperate with other manufacturers or producers? .
(b) Are you now cooperating in any joint advertising campaigns in foreign
markets?
8. Do you think it would be an advantage or a disadvantage to you in your
business to participate in some form of combination or cooperative selling
agency for export trade, and why?
4, Irrespective of your answer to question 1, please give the reasons why you
think combinations or cooperative organizations, solely for export business,
among American manufacturers or producers by common selling agencies, or by
other means, are or are not in the public interest.
5. If you think export combinations desirable, please state your opinion,
with your reasons, as to whether they should:
(a) Be open to all manufacturers or producers in the United States in their
respective lines, or have the right to exclude any concern at pleasure?
(b) Be open to all American-owned concerns, but have the right to exclude
any concerns that are conirolled by foreign interests?
(c) Be restricted to trade in noncompeling products, or cover competing
products also?
6. Do you think such export organizations of manufacturers or producers as
you have indicated in your answer to the preceding questions would be used
to restrain trade in the domestic market? Please give the reasons for your
answer. How would you prevent their being so used?
7. Have you any further suggestions as to what is needed to help you develop
foreign trade?
8. If you do not engage in foreign trade, please explain what conditions have
determined your policy in this respect.
9. Please give briefly any facts you may have concerning foreign cartels,
syndicates, or combinations in any form whose competition you or other
Americans encounter in export business.
10. Please give briefly any facts you may have concerning any combinations
of buyers of your products abroad, such as organizations of importers, jobbers,
retailers, or consumers.
11. Please give briefly any specific information you may have concerning any
other competitive conditions abroad affecting the export business to particular
markets, such as investments of foreign capital in local industries, the employment
 of foreign managers or engineers in local enterprises, concessions to
foreign syndicates or capitalists, discrimination in banking or transportation
facilities, the activities of foreign Governments, etc.
12. Please give what facts you can in regard to foreign concerns or combinations
 “ dumping ” either in the United States or in other markets. (By * dumping”
 is meant selling in another country below the price prevailing in the conrern’s
 home country in order to market a surplus or to drive out competitors.)
18. Please give the names, business positions, and addresses of any other
persons especially qualified to give information concerning the topics indicated
by the preceding questions.
NoTe.—The information requested in answer to the following questions (14 to 17) is
essential for classification of the replies. As already explained, the answers which are to
be kept confidential should be so designated.
14. How long have your products been actively exported, and to what
markets? to
15. What are the principal classes of products that you—
(a) Sell.
(db) Sell for export.
16. (a) In the table below please check the group in which your total gross
sales (domestic plus foreign) for your last business year before the European
war would fall.
Norn.—In the answer form a space is provided for checking,
Total gross sales for year:
Less than $250,000.
$250,000 to $1,000,000.
$1,000,000 to $5,000,000.
$5,000,000 to $25,000,000.
Over $£25.000.000.