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production and export figures, both in regard to the raw

material and the worked up product. This publicity is like-

wige to include transport by parcel post.

The Fowers not included in tile agreement proper

affecting restriction, should extend their co-operation also

in other respects. They should all be members of the Convention

or of the extension given thereto and should all of them apply

the import certificate system. If these demands are not put

forward and if some countries are holding aloof, the latter

will soon become the centres of a lucrative contraband treffic,

against which no boycott will be of any avail; on the contrary,

as already stated, this illicit trade will flourish to a large

extent under universal restrictive regulations.

Finally, as a supplement to the arrangements made

in respect of coca leaf and raw cocaine, it is essential to

fix by treaty to what countries the raw material can be

exported for the purpose of being worked up into cocaine.

A curtailment of the manufacture of cocaine is

automatically obtained in the way stated above. But in like

manner as for coca and for the very same reason, it is

necessary to lay down also for cocaine a condition which should

be universally observed, viz., that no other countries (or

their colonies, etc.) shall proceed to the production of

cocaine as long as the agreement shall be in force, unless

it be for home consumption and from home-grown leaf, in so

far and to the same extent as this production is being carried

on at the present moment.

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Adding two draft treaties in outline, the one

marked I to be concluded between Peru and the Netherlands

and the other marked II to be entered into by all Powers

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