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(b) Approximately what proportion of these sales were for export?
17. Please give a brief statement of any special experience, investigation, or
responsibility contributing to your interest in the subject matter of this schedule
or to your information thereon.

2. INQUIRIES FOR EXPORT COMMISSION HOUSES, MANUFACTUR-ERS’
 EXPORT AGENTS, EXPORT MERCHANTS. ETC.

1. Irrespective of your opinion as to whether the law does or does not prohibit
 combinations or cooperative organizations, solely for export business,
among American manufacturers or producers by common selling agencies, or by
other means, please give the reasons why you think such organizations are or
are not in the public interest. *
2. If you think export combinations desirable, please state your opinion,
with your reasons, as to whether they should—
(a) Be open to ell 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 controlled by foreign interests?
(c) Be restricted to trade in noncompeting products, or cover competing
products also?
3. 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?
4. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of export combinations
or cooperative organizations of manufacturers or producers as compared with
individual manufacturers or producers exporting through commission houses,
manufacturers’ export agents, etc.?
5. In what ways, if at all, could such export organizations meet the competition
 of foreign combinations or individual concerns in export trade any
more successfully than individual manufacturers or producers can now do?
6. In what ways, if at all, could such export organizations deal more successfully
 with combinations of foreign buyers?
7. What further suggestions have you as to what is needed to help you
develop foreign trade?
8. Please give briefly any facts you may have concerning foreign cartels,
syndicates, or combinations in any form whose competition you or other Amerimans
 encounter in export business.
9. Please give briefly any facts you may have concerning any combinations
of buyers of your exports abroad, such as organizations of importers, jobbers,
retailers, or consumers.
10. 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, ete.
11. 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 concern’s home country in order to market a surplus or to drive out
rompetitors.)
12, 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 is essential for
classification of the replies. As already explained, the answers which are to be kept con-Adential
 should be so designated.
13. Please state about how long you have been engaged in foreign trade.
14, In the column below for exports please check the group in which your
total exports for your last business year before the European war would fall.
In the column for imports please check the group in which your total imports
for the same year would fall.
Nore —On the answer form spaces are provided for checking.