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  a  market  value  based  upon  the  sale  of  such  goods,  wares,
and  merchandise  in  usual  wholesale  duamities,  packed  ready  for  shipment
to  the  United  States.  .
B.
Statements  provided  for  in  section  8  of  the  Customs  Administrative
Act  are  not  be  required  by  consular  officers  except  upon  the  request
os  the  appraiser  of  the  port,  after  entry  of  the  goods.  The  Consular
Regulations  ol  1896,  paragraph  674,  shall  be  amended  accordingly.

C.

In  reappraisement  cnases,  the  hearing  shall  be  open  and  in  the
presence  of  the  importer  or  his  attorney,  unless  the  Board  of  Appraisers
shall  certify  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  that  the  public  ünerest
Will  suffer  thereby;  ut  in  the  latter  cCase  the  importer  shall  be  furnished
with  a  summar)  of  the  fucts  developed  at  the  closed  hearing  upon
which  the  reappraisement  is  based.

D.

The  practice  in  regard  to  „pesonal  appenrance  belore  consul,
„riginal  bills  „declaration  of  name  of  ship“,  shall  be.  made  uniform
in  the  sense  —

1.  That  the  personal  appearance  before  the  consular  officer  shall
be  demanded  only  in  exceptional  cases,  where  specinl  reasons  require
a  personal  explanation.

2.  That  the  original  bills  are  only  to  be  reduested  in  cases  where
invoices  presented  to  the  consular  officer  for  authentication  include  goods
of  various  kinds  that  have  been  purchased  from  different  manuluctureis
at  places  more  or  less  remote  from  the  consulate  and  that  these  bills
shall  be  returned  after  inspection  by  the  consular  oflicer.

3.  That  the  declaration  of  the  name  of  the  ship  in  the  invoice  shall
be  dispensed  witli  whenever  the  exporter  at  the  time  the  invoice  is
Dresented  for  authentication  is  unnble  to  name  the  ship.

Paragraph  678  ol  such  regulations,  as  amended  March  1.  1906,
Shall  be  fürther  amended  by  striking  out  the  words:

„Whenever  the  invoice  is  presented  to  be  consulated  in  a
country  other  than  the  one  from  which  the  merchandise
is  being  directly  exported  to  the  United  States“.

And  by  inserting  after  the  first  sentence  the  following  clause:
*AS  place  in  which  the  merchandise  was  purchased,  is  to
he  considered  the  place  where  the  contract  was  made,
whenever  this  was  done  at  the  place  where  the  exporter
has  his  oftlice.