February My, dohn & Bridge New York KR, Rafter Street 4, New York Dear Rafter: Mr. Quoted March belewis a little as an excerpt from UNITED STATES 26, 1950 NEWS dated 3 é "You can, importer, soon follow a simpler bonding procedure in connection with import transactions. The treasury Department announces that the Bureau of Customs ig establishing a new type of bond and a simplified bonding procedure to facilitate the clearance of imported goods through customs." I gaw but lost a column from the JOURNAL OF COMMERCE which stated that there are being considered radical changes in the method of appraisal and determination of dutiable value. This column contained a good many inaccuracies regarding current procedures, I recall. i% stated with reference to considered changes that foreign value might be eliminated for appraisal purposes and that export value might be used, value, I suppose, could be re-defined, apprehensions Export if foreign value is eliminated Stand my value with AS observe, you its present I am definition is used as the floundering, I see in sommonly You under~ if export and dutiable value. available literature only the most general comments few and far between, If you Gan mention a perlodiGal which will keep us up«to-date with the trend in customs law, we would appreciate it. If you can without too much trouble give us an idea of how legislative decisions (apparently now swinging will be of assistance be effected. in back and giving us forth) are likely to some idea of our Kindest M, MBB/co/aw Air Mail how regards, Bigelow Browning wind up, this business may