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purpose, although it contemplates the possibility of such
inspection in certain cases, and prescribes a penalty
where a demand for inspection is made and refused.
16.
I have to express the hope that the United
States Government will furnish me with their observations
on the foregoing suggestions, which I trust it may be
possible for them to accept. I need not assure you that
they are offered with the sincere desire to reach a
practical agreement upon this matter.
17.
Before closing this note I think it well to
remove the misunderstanding which seems to exist in the
minds of the United States Government as to the activities
of the Customs agents of Canada and the Commonwealth of
Australia in the United States. These agents of the
Dominions do not demand particulars as to costs of produc
tion of individual firms, though it may happen that on
occasions they ask whether a firm is prepared to voluntee
information on the subject. There is further this great
difference between their requests and the demands sometimes
made by the United States Customs representatives, viz.
that the sanction involved in the exclusion of a firm's
goods from the Dominion concerned does not follow on a
refusal to give the information.
I have, etc.
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