198 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE,

porting and exporting houses in Chile undertook to oppose the combination.
 The boycott which was established included a series of
agreements, signed and made public by all the other nitrate producers
 and by all the principal business houses in Chile, to have no
dealings with the firm in question. Its action was regarded as a
public menace to the country’s interests. According to the informants,
 the boycott was an effective one. The company held out
10 days and then gave in and joined the combination. As far as
could be learned, there has since been no other attempt on the part
of any nitrate producer to manufactuse iodine outside of the comhination,