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The exporting countries will undertake to regard the
norm obtained, reduced by 10 per cent, as the maximu
for their annual exports and at the same time engage
duly to check contraband traffic.
These
The exporting Fowers, however, will never be favour-
ubly disposed towards any restriction, unless all other
Powers should bind themselves to desist from the exporta-
tion of coca leaf or raw cocaine, as long as the agree-
ment shall be in force, also in so far as their colonies,
protectoratus and the like are concerned, an exception
being made for the six cocaine-producing Powers.
Powers, with the exclusion of others, manufactur、 cocaine
also for export purposes and, therefore, transactions in
the raw material may exclusively be carried on among
these countries mutually. It would not be fair if this
condition were not fulfilled, as, side by side with
exporting countries restricting their culture, there
yould be others that extended it without having been
confronted by the cares and troubles attendant on
restriction.
it is essential to see that the
growing of ooga leaf continues to be a profitable oulture
in the future.
Moreover,
In order to ensure the efficiency of the agreement,
not only the exporting countries but also the other
Powers sould undertake to give at short intervals a
general publicity to their import, /
production,