384 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE.
Total for year.

Group.
Less than $250,000 came ecm
$250,000 to $1,000,000 cme
$1,000,000 to $5,000,000 meee
$5,000,000 to $25,000,000 ccmmumme eee
Dver $25.000.000 oe

Exports.

Imports.

15. 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,

3. INQUIRIES FOR DOMESTIC MERCHANTS, IMPORTERS, 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 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 controlled by foreign interests?
(¢) Be restricted to trade in moncompeting 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, ete.?
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 Dow do?
6. In what ways, if at all, could such export organizations deal more success
fully with combinations of foreign buyers?
7. Please give briefly any facts you may have concerning foreign cartels, syndicates,
 or combinations in any form whose competition Americans encounter in
export business.
8. Please give briefly any facts you may have concerning any combinations of
buyers of American exports abroad, such as organizations of importers, jobbers,
retailers, or consumers.
9. 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
tacilities, the activities of foreign Governments, etc.
10. Please give what facts you can in regard to foreign concerns or combinas
tions “ 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 competitors.)
11. 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.
NoTr.—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.