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12, Please state the nature of your business—I. e., wholesaler, retailer, importer,
 etc. What general class or-classes of products do you handle?
13. Please state how long you have been engaged in importing.
14. In the column below, for domestic sales, please check the group in which
your total domestic sales 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. If you also export, please check in
the export column the group in which your total exports would fall.
(In the answer form spaces are provided for checking.)

SCHEDULES—FORMS.

Total for year.

Group. :
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 __________

Domestic sales,

Imports.

Exports.

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.

{. INQUIRIES FOR PUBLICISTS, ECONOMISTS, LAWYERS, BANKERS,
ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS, 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—
(2) Be open to all manufacturers or producers in the United States in their
respective lines, or have the right to exclude eny concern at pleasure?
(0) Be open to all American-owned concerns, but have the right to exclude
any concerns that are conirolled by foreign interests?
(¢) Be restricted to trade in moncompeting products, or cover competing
products also?
‘8. 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. 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 emoloyment
 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,