Mr. R. RAFTER, Counselor John At Law, &, Street, Bridge New York 4, Dear Rafter: Mr. N.Y. June As we are planning you may possibly shortly to commence have 30, been 1953. informed, importation of three moe dels of our automatic pistols manufactured by F.N. for sale in the U.S.= I enclose a draft of an affidavit by F.N., which describes the various particulars for home consumption and the prices portation to the United States, of which sales in we will pay Belgium for ime We would appreciate your. examining this draft, and advisingus if we are correct in believing that the value upon which the customs authorities will assess duty will be the prices * at which the imported same to the automatic U.S.A. are pistols most as those frequently presently offered being for home consumption in Belgium " (third price list in affidavit) plus , 1/2 % transmission tax plus the cost of packing for shipment to the United States. : we assume that there is a foreign value since the same pistols are freely offered on the belgian market within the definition applied by the customs authorities. Sinee the number the packing charges will vary considerably with of pistols ordered by any Belgian dealer, the pack- ing additional to the cardboard to each Belgian customer. box mentioned is charged extra A slight technicality worries us concerning the supporting affidavit from Schroeder Fréres which usually complements the F.N. affidavit. Since different discounts (14%, I0%, 5%) are made by Schroeder to different dealers depending upon their size and the volume of their orders, the circular which Senroeder sends to all dealers contains only the base prices listed by F.N. the discount ticular be dealer troublesome discount discount is (first list in their affidavit). The size of settled by Schroeder privately with the in question. You will appreciate that it would to to fact that advertize all dealers the parI4% is given to ene dealer and only 5% to another. The is only shown on the bill made to the dealer when any order is sent to that dealer. The usual circular sent to