e © e (2) order or an agreement to purchase (whether placed or entered into in the United States or in the foreign country), for delivery to the purchaser in the United, and if the title to such merchandise remains in the seller until such delivery, then such merchendise shall not be deemed to be freely offered for sale in the principal nmerkets of the country from which exported for exportation to the United States, (a) The United within the meaning States value of this subdivision. of imported merchandise shall be the price for at which such or similer imported merchandise is freely offered United sale, packed ready for delivery, in the principal market of the States to @l1l purchasers, at the time of exportation of ¢ the immortdd the ordinary in and quantities merchandise , in the usual wholesale course of trade, with allovance made for duty, cost of transportation end insurance, and ether necessary expenses from the place of shipment to the plece of delivery, @ commission not exceeding 6 per centum, if any has been paid or contracted to be paid on soods secured otherwise than by purchase, or profits not to exceed S per centun. and &@ reasonable not to exceed 8 per centum on purchased peer niga for general expenses ours : P 4 - ~—senlit : Pg % nee? ae 7 = 4 enim Ps = Jf ‘Z £2 OEE