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§ XI.
MONSIEUR BOURGOIS' SCHEME AND EXPOSE.
In his explanatory note (Annex IV a) M. bourgois points out, to begin with, that the direct limitation
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of producti on 1.8. its limitation by fixing two totals, one for world production and the other for the share of manufacture allocated to euch country is open to the objection that it would cause the whole system of an international convention to rest on two bases which are almost inconsistent; for of these two totals the first is indeterminate and the
The quota of second is very largely arbitrary,
each country must be capable of constant revision. The Governments of manufacturing countries should undertake to compel their manufacturers to consent to any sudden reduction of manufacture which might be necessary. in order to allow any country which decided to begin manufacture for the purpose of
and even for the its own internal consumption,
purpose of entering the foreign trade, to take its place with the other manufacturing countries.
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The following principles should, in H. Bourgois' view, be followed in drawing up the future Convention.
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The Convention must be easily acceptable by all the countrics, for otherwise the industry would merely be transferred to the non-signatory States
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