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ligence with a ‘view to the development of Empire Trade, 
welcomes the arrangements proposed by His Majesty’s 
Government. 
It also welcomes the offer of the Governments of the 
Dominions which have appointed Trade Commissioners in 
countries overseas to make a similar arrangement for the 
utilisation of those officers by Governments of other parts of 
the Empire. 
The Conference further recommends that, when two or more 
Governments of the Empire maintain commercial representa- 
tives in the same country, an endeavour should be made to 
arrange that the offices of these representatives should be in 
the same building or in close proximity, in order to facilitate 
all possible co-operation between such representatives in their 
work on behalf of Empire trade. 
Commercial Travellers’ Samples. 
This Imperial Economic Conference proposes that articles 
liable to duty imported into any part of the British Empire as 
samples or specimens by commercial travellers representing 
manufacturers or traders established in any other part of the 
British Empire, should be temporarily admitted free of duty, 
subject to such persons complying with the laws and regula- 
tions and also the Customs formalities established to assure the 
re-exportation or deposit in bond of the articles or the payment 
of the prescribed Customs duties if not re-exported or deposited 
within the prescribed period. But the foregoing privilege 
should not extend to articles which, owing to their quantity or 
value, cannot be considered as samples, or which, owing to 
their nature, could;not be identified upon re-exportation. 
The marks, stamps, or seals placed upon such samples by 
the Customs authorities of any part of the Empire at the time 
of exportation and the officially attested list of such samples 
of the Empire as establishing their character as samples and 
exempting them from inspection, except so far as may be 
necessary to establish that the samples produced are those 
enumerated in the list. 
The Customs authorities of that part of tbe Empire into 
which the samples are brought may, however, affix a supple- 
mentary mark to such samples or lists in special cases where 
they may think this precaution necessary. 
In cases where the regulations require the provisional 
payment of the duties or deposits for such samples on entry 
a receipt for such payment should be given and the duties or 
deposits should be reimbursed at any Custom-house at which 
the samples may be produced with a view to re-exportation. 
(iii.) Trade Catalogues. 
This Imperial Economic Conference proposes that, where 
freer admission of catalogues and price lists is not provided 
for, single copies of trade catalogues and price lists of firms 
having an established place of business within the Empire,