JZOEN Ro RAFTER COUNSELLOR AT LAW 74 TRINITY PLACE NEW YORK TELEPHONE WHITEHALL 5094 August Mir. ide Ae 29th, 1927 Browning, e/o Browning Arms Co., Ogden, Dear Utahe Mr. Browning: enclosing Fabrique I have your letter of August 24th, letters to Mr. Val A. Browning and the Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, regarding . your supplemental order for 1928 and proposed changes in the manufacturer's selling policy, ete. Your letter of August 25th, enclosing check to the order of the Fabrique Nationale d*Armes de Guerre for $23,116., is also enclosures by and I am also this letter. they policy. are tariff which As requested, I am forwarding all the registered mail to ii. Val A. Browning enclosing for his information a copy of Unless the matter is of such urgency that be delayed, I earnestly recommend that no made at this time to change the manufacturer's it cannot attempt be sekling to I say this, because 44) establish a foreign will have to suggest and (2) law, you acknowledged. . be more value as drastic discussion of the changes, defined than such in if the those changes with the manufacturer at this time may confuse or interfere with the necessities of the pending reappraisement cases. In order to establish a foreign value for customs purposes, please note it will be necessary for the manufacturer not only to sell to all purchasers in wholesale quantities but also to make such sales freely, i.e., accomplish frain from without condition or restriction. To this, therefore, the manufacturer must dictating, or exercising control over, resale prices posing \by the any condition against Belgian purohesars: in belgium and possibly refrain exportation of from the rethe guns im-