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countries engage to check by all means in their power
the contraband traffic. Provided that we do not go toc
far, it will always be possible to ascertain the consequences following on this decrease and to take the necessary steps in good time, if it were found that this It must procedure did not lead to satisfactory results.
be remembered that any reduction would almost certainly mean a substantial advance in the price of cocaine and, in any case, the smuggling trade would also show a marked increase owing to the restrictive measures which woul & be adopted. Once smuggling of a certain product is established as a regular trade fin consequence hf measures which are not practicable, it will prove to be impossible to chook it. The basis on which reductim is to take
place is not the amount of the world's requiramonts because this cannot be fixed in any reliable way;
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in the event of a fair estimate of the world's requirements being obtained, this estimate could never be taken as a
would starting point. Poor crops, wars, epidemics, etc., have an influence incalculable beforehand. Therefore as a besis is taken an average of export fogures for the lest
It will years, making allowances for present circumstances.
be seen that the soheme takes into consideration not only the quantities of cocu leaves, but also the percentage of cocaine contained in the raw material, because even in crops of the same country there may be very great difference in this respect. The content of coca
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