...discussing and negotiating rates, terms and conditions with shippers group. 3. A government overseer'will be invited to attend each Conference/Shipper rate...are to be at all effective. Respectfully submitted, r\ t II /> / ^~brS (J. Murray Fox Executive Secretary Pacific Agricultural Cooperative . For, Export,...

...Commission has no authority to determine the appropriate level of rates except that it may prohibit any that are "so high or so low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States". This authority for a variety of reasons has been little exercised. The Federal Maritime Commission's...

...system and filed - with the Commission pursuant to section 18(b)(1) of the Act will be deemed to be "so low" as to be "detrimental to the commerce of the United States" within the meaning of section 18(b)(5) of the Act and to establish rules and regulations governing...

...carriers the maximum degree of rate flexibility. In order to demonstrate that a carrier's rates are so low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States, the Commission requires a showing that the rates fail to recover out-of-pocket expenses. By...

...18(bX5) of the Shipping Act provides that rates can be rejected by the Commission if it determines they are "so high or so low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States". It seems to me that if rates are 100 percent more than they are from comparable countries...

...authority, perhaps the criteria under which rates may be disallowed should be more meaningful than just so high or so low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States, to give a little more protection to the shipper. Mr. KURKUS. I think basically the question...

...conditions. This argument unfortunately is directed to the question of whether the surcharges are or were so high or so low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States within the meaning of section 18(b)(5). This issue has already been dismissed as moot and the...

...1961, gave the Commission the limited authority to disapprove any rate found, after hearing, to be so high or so low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States. It is Important to note that the Commission was not given the power to fix ocean freight rates...

...system and filed 2 with the Commission pursuant to section 18(b)(1) of the Act will be deemed to be "so low" as to be "detrimental to the commerce of the United States" within the meaning of section 18(b)(5) of the Act and to establish rules and regulations governing...

...with foreign governments would result from the prohibition by the Board of a rate which it finds to be so low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States. In addition to making unlawful any rate of an individual carrier or conference which is so...