Attention is being drawn by the French Press, for the first time, to certain remarkable practices of the U.S. Treasury agents in France. The Fordney Act, passed in 1922 for the purpose of protecting American industries, contains a eluuse provi an exporter doing bus ness with the United States ref to show his books and accounts to representatives of the U. S. Government, the sale of any of hiy goods in the latter's territory may be prohibited, and such goods may be confiscated a year Inter if the re-fatal is maintained, This clause is being used as a means of detecting frauds on the U.S. Treasury by Americans returning home with dutiable goods which they omit to formation about French manufacturers' affairs. The U.S, Treasury agents go to French business men and, under threat of the embargo, make them fill up forms containing such particulary as the amount of capital, names.and num~ ber of employees, quality and quantity of goods, annual turnover, surance premiums, bank ferences, ete. One of the big dressmaking firms in the Rue de la Paix which recently refused to submit {to this inquisition way required to deposit a guarantee of 10,000 dollars in respect of goody then in the New York Custom Hous
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