COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PURSUANT TO

S. Res. 56

Part I

MARCH 8 AND 14, 1963

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Berhman, Jack N., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic and

International Business, accompanied by Milton A. Berger, Deputy

Director, Office of Commercial and Financial Policy, Bureau of Inter-

national Commerce; Dean B. Lewis, Assistant General Counsel for

International Affairs; and Vincent Travaglini, Director, Foreign Business

Practices, Office of Commercial and Financial Policy, Bureau of Inter-

national Commerce..

Dixon, Paul Rand, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; accompanied

by John V. Buffington, assistant to the Chairman, and John N.

Wheelock, Executive Director...

Johnson, G. Griffith, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs,

Department of State; accompanied by Harold A. Levin, Chief, Inter-

national Business Practices Division..

Lodge, Henry Cabot, director general, the Atlantic Institute, accompanied

by Richard J. Wallace, director general, Atlantic Council of the United

States...

Loevinger, Lee, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division Depart-

ment of Justice; accompanied by Max Freeman and Wilbur L. Fugate, of

the Foreign Commerce Section_.

EXHIBITS

Exchange of letters betweeen Senator Kefauver and George W. Ball,

Under Secretary of State..

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Letter from P. verLoren van Themaat, Director General of Competition,

European Economic Community_

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Common Market communication concerning exclusive representation con-

tracts concluded with commercial representatives...

Common Market Commission Regulation No. 153_.

Letter from Christian A. Herter, Special Representative for Trade Nego-

tiations__.

News item from Business Week, March 9, 1963-
News item from Kiplinger Letter, March 8, 1963-

APPENDIX

1. "The significance of the concept to take improper advantage of a

dominant position within the Common Market or within a sub-

stantial part of it, in article 86 of the treaty establishing the European

Economic Community"-report rendered for the colloquium on

questions relating to the European Economic Community, Frankfurt

am Main, November 8-10, 1962, by Dr. Eberhard Gunther, presi-

dent of the Federal Cartel Control Authority, Berlin – –

2. Competition in the Common Market, by Hans von der Groeben,

member of the Commission of the European Economic Community,

speech given on October 19, 1961, before the European Parlia-
mentary Assembly.

3. American Society of International Law proceedings of a conference on

international economic integration, October 26 and 27, 1962----

4. Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of The
White Motor Co. v. United States, March 4, 1963---

5. Biographical sketch of Jack N. Behrman, Assistant Secretary of

Commerce for Domestic and International Business.....

6. Summary of foreign legislation concerning monopoly and restrictive

business practices, prepared by the Antitrust Division, Department

of Justice, March 1963_

7. Regulation No. 17 of the Common Market...

8. Address by Senator Estes Kefauver, New York State Bar Association,

January 25, 1962.

9. Antitrust laws of the Common Market countries.

10. Text of the Webb-Pomerene Act..

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