Economic and Political Aspects of International Cartels. A Study Made for the Subcommittee on War Mobilization ..., Pursuant to S.Res. 107 ...

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Página 27 - The IG are going to stay out of the oil business proposition and we are going to stay out of the chemical business insofar as that has no bearing on the oil business.
Página 44 - ... an international business operating throughout the world, should conduct its operations in strictly business terms, without regard to the political beliefs of its management, or the political beliefs of the country in which it ia operating.
Página 12 - Co.: * * * a price war is of benefit only to the consumer, and the maintaining of a certain price level would be to the advantage of all competitive companies. When the cartel control is tight, the need for the product imperative, and substitutes unsatisfactory or expensive, cartel prices may be fantastically high. When cartel opportunities are more meager, cartel prices and profits are less impressive.
Página 15 - They will attribute their loss of substantial potential savings to 'big business.' "If Paraflow and Santopour are both to be marketed without loss of total income it is apparent that Santopour would have to be adjusted to the same cost per unit of pour reduction as Paraflow. This could be done by either making a substantial increase in the price of Santopour or diluting it to a considerable extent. Either...
Página 39 - Frankly, several of our members have received reports from many sources to the effect that the Continental prices at which business is reported to have been closed are subject to rebates of varying amounts. We have no quarrel with the Continentals or the British in quoting lower than £9.15.0 by means of the rebate system (as this is what we have been asking them to do for some time to eliminate the American outsider) if they have some real reason for not wanting a price lower than £9.15.0 to become...
Página 13 - Schenectady plant have been and are on the machining of various steels, particularly such hard work as cold-rolled steel, drop forgings, and castings. Now the principal reason for these various vendors not selling their tools for machining steel which is such an important item in the machine-shop industry today is that the prices they have to maintain for the carboloy does not allow them to put on carboloy enough to stand machining operations on steel. From a study of our drawings compared with the...
Página 25 - ... build up private protective tariffs, not to aid struggling industry but to crush it. Mr. Corwin Edwards, in a report to Senator Kilgore's Committee, cites the difficulties of the Dutch producer who thought he had the right to do business in Holland. A representative of du Pont reported as follows: As you will have seen from my cable, he is very stiff-necked about his position. He claims very low costs and is determined to export that portion of his production ( which to him apparently means capacity)...
Página 74 - ... by either party should be hereafter restrained or prevented by operation of any existing or future law, or the beneficial interest of either party be alienated to a substantial degree by operation of law or governmental authority, the parties should enter into new negotiations in the spirit of the present agreements and endeavor to adapt their relations to the changed conditions which have so arisen.
Página 53 - The two organizations realize that in certain cases the advantages of agreements between the industries of two countries or of a group of countries may be nullified by competition from the industry in some other country that refuses to become a party to the agreement.

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