REPLIES TO CARD AND SCHEDULE INQUIRIES. 345

(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 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 vou prevent their being so used?

The problems raised in these three questions—whether export combinations
 would be in the public interest, whether membership in
them should be selective or open to all, whether foreign-controlled
concerns should be excluded, whether the combinations should cover
competing products or noncompeting products only, and whether
export combinations would be used to restrain trade in the domestic
trade—are important in a consideration of what policy the Nation
will adopt on this matter.
A tabulation of the replies on two of these three questions is given
below :
TapLE VIII.—Summary of replies as to whether export combinations are in the public
wnterest.

Total schedules received... -
Direct replies. .............
Export combinations are—
In the public interest.....ceceeeenenccocccneas
Not in the public interest...ceee.....
Noncommittal.....---Not
 answered...

Total.

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‘fanufacturers.


Exportars.


Domestic!
mershants.


os

=

General.

426
410

388
24
(
106

1 Covers publicists, economists, lawyers, bankers, engineers, contractors, ete.

TABLE IX.—Summary of replies as to whether export combinations would restrain
domestic trade.

Total schedules recelved.....-----ecccr--acvcaean
Direct replies.......c..ccvaeuee
Export combinations would—
Restrain domestic trade. ...cccceeececnnccncnene
Not restrain domestic trade...-Not
 answered. .

Total,

3,004
i632

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Domestic]
merchants,


General}

+ 428
387
151
236
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1 Covers publicists, economists, lawyers, bankers, engineers, contractors, ete.

_ It is of interest to note that, of those replying directly to the particular
 inquiries, about 93 per cent were of the opinion that export
combinations would be in the public interest and 74 per cent thought
they would not be used to restrain trade in the domestic market.
The replies to question 5 of manufacturers and 2 of other schedules,
 in regard to the character of membership in these export combinationg,
 did not permit of accurate tabulation, but of those replying
directly to the particular questions about three-fourths believed the
membership should be open to American-owned concerns under
reasonable restrictions and about seven-eighths thought such organizations
 should be allowed to cover competing products also. A fuller
discussion of these three inquiries is given below (pp. 867 to 892).