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In order to attain the desired curtailment, coca
leaves shouls first be made subject to the stipulations
of the Convention, whereupon the exporting countries
(The Netherlands and Peru) should come to a mutuat
agreement us to the quantities of coca leaf or raw
coquine destined for exhort. They should agree on
the quantity of leaf (or of the raw cocaine) to be
taken as a norm, This norm will have to come very
near the average export figure for a couple of years
to be regarded as normal ones in the light of present
circumstances.
The market value of the leaf is largely affected
by the percentage of cocaine or other alkaloids,
without being in proportion thereto. This percentage may
show differences of 100 per ount and more, even in cr ops
of one and the game country, and can be enhanced by
The manuring and the way of guthering in the orop.
revision of the quantum and the pereuntage
figure of the norm might be contemplated.
norm in the above agreement will, therefore, have to be
determined by two fuctors: weight and percentage of
cooning. For this percentage, could be adopted the
average of the crops yielded during the last few years.
If it should prove after the lapse of one year that
this average, as far as export is concerned, is subject to large increases and duorcases, o.g. of 5 per cent,
or more,
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