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While the scheme was based on the present situation in regard
to the manufacture of the drug and production of the raw material,
it did not propose that the right of manufacture or production should be confined to the present manufacturing or producing countries.
Any country which desired in the future to start the manufacture of the drug or the production of the raw material would retain full
berty to do so, but, as the entry of a new country into the field of manufacture or production would hecessitate an alteration of the arrangements in the agreement, it was proposed by the draft to ask all countries to agree before starting manufacture or production to give notice to the League, and, if they proposed to manufacture or produce for export, to enter into negotiations with the existing sanufacturing or producing countries as to the quota of manufacture
or production to be allotted to it.
Fo provide the machinery necessary for revising from time to time the total amounts to be manufactured or produced and for adjusting the points which would necessarily arise in connection with the work-
the scheme ing of arrangements closely affecting industry and commerce, proposed that a Board consisting of representatives of the manufacturing and producing countries (with possibly one ofore representatives of the other countries) should be set up to adjust difficulties and gene-
relly to facilitate the working of the agreement.
The two parts of the scheme, that is, control of the manufacture of the drug and control of the production of the raw material are not inesperable. The control of the manufacture of the drug is the more important and that part of his scheme could stand by itself even if the countries producing the raw material sould not be get into the
agreement.
Provisions were serted in the draft to meet the difficulties
that would arise if a manufacturing or producing country refused to
some into or left the agreement.