446 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE.
A prominent attorney wrote:
Control should be vested in the Federal Trade Commission. Parties should
be required to file articles with the Commission 30 days before becoming
effective, und the Commission should be vested with power to enter an order
restraining parties pending investigation ; also power to enter an order finally
restraining parties after hearing, with right of appeal to courts.
A dealer in wines and liquors suggested that—
A Federal board or commission should be established for the purpose of
governing combinations so far as properly regulating their conduct to prevent
abuses.

A manufacturer of automobile parts wrote:

If such combinations and organizations were under Federal supervision and
had the cooperation of our consular representatives, I think they could be made
such a trade power for foreign business that every incentive would be to work
with the Federal bureau or commission controlling,
An assistant professor of history wrote:

Close observation by the Federal Trade Commission under rules elaborated to
fit developments would be the best remedy. This would furnish the higher
unity of control over all such combinations, and strengthen their activity
abroad, while preventing dangerous activity at home,
A manufacturer of machinery said:
If the Federal Trade Commission is given the same relative power to deal
with business as the Interstate Commerce Commission has to deal with railroads,
 there can be such regulation and cooperation between business and Government
 that will ultimately put the phrase * restraint of trade” out of our
statute book’s vocabulary.
A publisher having long experience with business problems wrote :
The Federal Trade Commission should have authority to determine what is
such restraint of domestic trade, and the law should deal drastically with the
responsible individuals.
An attorney said:

I would provide a set of regulatory rules, or laws—as few as possible, and
50 plain that business men could readily understand them. These rules should
be enforced by a Federal commission and the Federal courts.
A producer of lumber wrote:

The aid toward overcoming such a tendency would be to permit a corporation
to seek, and the Federal Trade Commission to give, an opinion before the corporation
 embarked upon a certain procedure.

An officer of a wheel and spoke association wrote:

If there were danger of foreign trade combinations being used to restrain
domestic trade, a suitable reviewing body—the Federal Trade Commission, for
instance—could hear complaints and dispense justice.
A manufacturer of medicinal chemicals wrote:
It is perfectly obvious that any injured party would immediately complain
to the Federal Trade Commission. My only suggestion is that the mechanism
and expense of such complaint should be made to be within the means of small
companies.

An officer of a chemists’ association believed that—

If the law carefully distinguishes between export trade and trade within the
United States, with power to the Federal Trade Commission to enjoin combinations
 which restrain or tend to restrain lawful trade within the United States,
the danger from this abuse will be negligible,