countries engage to check by all means in their power
the contraband traffic. Provided that we do not go too
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 procedure did not lead to satisfactory results.
It must 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 would be adopted. Once smuggling of a certain product is established as a regular trade in consequence of measures which are not practicable, it will prove to be impossible to check it. The basis on which reduction is to take place is not the amount of the world's requirements because this cannot be fixed in any reliable way;
even in the event of a fair estimate of the world's requirements being obtained, this estimate could never be taken as a starting point. Poor crops, wars, epidemics, etc., have an influence incalculable beforehand. Therefore as a basis is taken an average of export figures for the last years, making allowances for present circumstances.
It will be seen that the scheme takes into consideration not only the quantities of coca 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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countries engage to check by all means in their power
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