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These Conferences make deferred rebates at regular intervals to those firms who have found it convenient to confine their shipments to the association during a fixed period.

Certain classes of cargo however such as rice from Japan and Sugar from the Philippines are not included in these agreements. There are also other goods which can be shipped by outside vessels without invalidating claims to Conference rebates; but it must be taken that on those trade routes where a Shipping Conference exists the bulk of the business is carried by Conference Steamers.

Even where actual Conferences do not exist it has been found desirable in several instances to make local agreement in order to ensure frequent and regular sailings, without the cut-throat competition which so often arises if the various lines engaged in one trade are working absolutely independently of each other.

This is exemplified by the agreements under which certain British and Chinese Companies engaged in the river, and coasting trade of China pool their earnings on certain routes, the rates of freight however fluctuating with the supply of, and demand for, tonnage, or by the amount of competition encountered from other lines.

Two British and a German line also work an agreement on the China to Australian route, but here again rates fluctuate in the same manner as on the China Coast.

These Conferences are not all governed on the same principle, but as a rule it amounts to this that certain lines on any one route are associated and while they may limit or entirely exclude outside tonnage from taking the berth, on the other hand they undertake to provide ample tonnage, sufficient to meet all reasonable requirements and ordinary fluctuations of demand for Steamers at more or less fixed and unchanging rates of freight.

Reverting to the evidence received from those

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679 These Conferences make deferred rebates at regular intervals to those firms who have found it convenient to confine their shipments to the association during a fixed period. Certain classes of cargo however such as rice from Japan and Sugar from the Philippines are not included in these agreements. There are also other goods which can be shipped by outside vessels without invalidating claims to Conference rebates; but it must be taken that on those trade routes where a Shipping Conference exists the bulk of the business is carried by Conference Steamers. Even where actual Conferences do not exist it has been found desirable in several instances to make local agreement in order to ensure frequent and regular sailings, without the cut-throat competition which so often arises if the various lines engaged in one trade are working absolutely independently of each other. This is exemplified by the agreements under which certain British and Chinese Companies engaged in the river, and coasting trade of China pool their earnings on certain routes, the rates of freight however fluctuating with the supply of, and demand for, tonnage, or by the amount of competition encountered from other lines. Two British and a German line also work an agreement on the China to Australian route, but here again rates fluctuate in the same manner as on the China Coast. These Conferences are not all governed on the same principle, but as a rule it amounts to this that certain lines on any one route are associated and while they may limit or entirely exclude outside tonnage from taking the berth, on the other hand they undertake to provide ample tonnage, sufficient to meet all reasonable requirements and ordinary fluctuations of demand for Steamers at more or less fixed and unchanging rates of freight. Reverting to the evidence received from those
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not state to у18j87082 add mort bevisser anoltɛeup bas dotsqaeɗ

edit to aredram AuldİTS SUJ (Ia of betaluotto stew aetnolod srit

odd of bewaal es tsivorto add to yqoo A

Ieder

.Attvered beaofone at areɗmeM ¡atti¬A

ni yiyer of betasuper eтew aтedram erT

atno mos dove exam of to,boaier nottseup evoltav sɗt of Ikateb wilach merit of bsxana as ɛgoneretnoð galgjinë to nok‡koup sríð no

.9133-

art bustetebnu vllut yam woy Janj tebro MI

fotdw mort aчujer a 9aolone of geɗ I raɗmaid e:it to noistaoqmoo atauons Todasɗ0 end to qteredmem fatoð sit Jædt ston ££tw not

att ers 38 gode to bad of

Baabuloni Tedma:ið eit ness ed IIte 8A

fenolasetor¶‚atoetidonλ aa dove acritt no afsskivtbui to reɗown

*

, IT C

bus #siseb Ilster,8ainsqmoƉ Istrðavbol bus eowywani

19jtar and ni jesretni Joerib on to misiti eveď ońw aradjo

.notearoalb reb

AbI eat to tarit bine ed yon ti dost ni

aa8rqxe of beitilsup 815 09 emon vino "redmeɗo add to areḍnem

.aeoneteÌnoð gntqqinƐ to Joetdua erit no nolaiqo as

noxud ad domumo etioideig sur 30 Juget exT

Baw 18[uotio bпosea & duontis as votostattan redtegojía es

oj noljasup eft ni betaetejat eTSW QW BImit esort guixas Jasa

atci erew al moliw to、08 nib Sẽ vino sstiger ziedt ni brez asilqar ort sexians of anibasɔong enote¤

erts at asonetstno) g.ilqgina to sonojeixe edt Jait etaja bluow I

eɗt to Jaom bila antri neewieɗ abert AS987evo sde ni

.benietniam al noitsoinum1oo toerib moriw rista settimuos

of altlost ant air gotISMÅ mort eban3 ONT

al Isnað ed? siv sotrsmå bas oyo¬g of snin) mort bus satdo J808 10 Ila Hotdw ni aeonerethod và bellostnoo vistijne jaorila

+

.borsioonas 915 #baît ent ni begsyns zenti qiiacss38 srið to

These Conferences make deferred rebates at regular intervals to

those firms who have found it convenient to confine their ship-

-ments to the association during a fixed period.

Certain classes of cargo however such as

rice from Japan and Sugar from the Philippines are not included

in these agreements. There are also other goods which can be

shipped by outside vessels without invalidating claims to Con-

-ference rebates; but it must be taken that on those trade

routes where a Shipping Conference exists the bulk of the

business is carried by Conference Steamers.

Even where actual Conferences do not exist

it has been found desirable in several instances to make local

agreement in order to ensure frequent and regular sailings,

without the cut-throat competition which so often arises if the

various lines engaged in one trade are working absolutely in-

-dependently of each other.

This is exemplified by the agreements under

which certain British and Chinese Companies engaged in the

river, and coasting trade of China pool their earnings on

certain routes, the rates of freight however fluctuating with

the supply of, and demand for, tonnage, or by the amount of

competition encountered from other lines.

Two British and a German line also work an

agreement on the China to Australian route, but here again

rates fluctuate in the same manner as on the China Coast,

These Conferences are not all governed on

the same principle, but as a rule it amounts to this that cer-

-tain lines on any one route are associated and while they may

limit or entirely exclude outside tonnage from taking the

berth, on the other hand they undertake to provide ample ton-

nage,

sufficient to meet all reasonable requirements and

ordinary fluctuations of demand for Steamers at more or less

fixed and unchanging rates of freight.

Reverting to the evidence received from

those

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