Mr. John Browning V. Browning, Arms Company, Boite Postale 22, Herstal-lez-Liece, Browning : I am its the in receipt of your letter of June enclosures, The statement seneinda just the affidavits of FN and Schroeder Preres, plus of the ~~ of bel gia Gun Dealers, should customs authorities that there is a *forwvign value” for your autmeet a and superposed shotguns, inas-~ much as, according to your letter, the report to be made by the viee-consul at Brussels will donfirm the fact that the suggested retall prices of such duns for home consumption in Belgium were merely suggdéstions and were not imposed on the retailers. I make the above obvservation, despite the faet that the deliveries of such guns in recent years for home consumption in Belcium have been small. At the same tine, I recommend that many more such guns be allotted to the Belcian market now and in the future, With respect to the _ comparative price levels of such guns for exportation to the United States and for home consumption in Belgiun, I not only approve but strongly recommend that the inerease in the latter prices which has been contemplated since February be put into effect imnediateLy and that the vice-consul be so informed. if poss sible such increased prices for home consumption in Belgiun, | exclusive of the Belgian tax of 42%, equivalent ta the orices at sold for exportation to the Until aware that ing Suggested dealers the receipt vile confirmation retall dhould be apy proximately waich such funs United States, are now of yous present letter, POneut had obtained from of Schroeder prices. On Freres the I contrary, was several statements being not Belgian regard- I understood