Omnibus Maritime Regulatory Reform, Revitalization, and Reorganization Act of 1980: Report Together with Additional Views to Accompany H.R. 6899, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - Maritime law |
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... antitrust violations apparently committed in an effort to respond to overtonnaging in U.S. trades . Some of the executives involved were foreign citizens employed by foreign lines ; and several governments protested the indictments on ...
... antitrust violations apparently committed in an effort to respond to overtonnaging in U.S. trades . Some of the executives involved were foreign citizens employed by foreign lines ; and several governments protested the indictments on ...
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... antitrust immunity which the FMC could grant to conference agreements were to be redefined ; broad groups of the least anticompetitive agreements were to be considered presumptively approvable without the need for a formal hearing . The ...
... antitrust immunity which the FMC could grant to conference agreements were to be redefined ; broad groups of the least anticompetitive agreements were to be considered presumptively approvable without the need for a formal hearing . The ...
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... antitrust and fair business practices aspects of liner shipping regulation . Second , carriers are authorized to organize and rationalize services fully with clear antitrust immunity . Such strong liner conferences are counterbalanced ...
... antitrust and fair business practices aspects of liner shipping regulation . Second , carriers are authorized to organize and rationalize services fully with clear antitrust immunity . Such strong liner conferences are counterbalanced ...
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... antitrust laws . One type of agreement requiring Commission approval is that creating steamship conferences , which are associations of steamship companies that have authority to bind their members to agreed - upon rates and conditions ...
... antitrust laws . One type of agreement requiring Commission approval is that creating steamship conferences , which are associations of steamship companies that have authority to bind their members to agreed - upon rates and conditions ...
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... antitrust constraints as the dominating purpose of liner ship- ping regulation . This has eroded the jurisdiction of the Federal Mari- time Commission and inhibited commercial initiatives by the liner in- dustry to provide transport ...
... antitrust constraints as the dominating purpose of liner ship- ping regulation . This has eroded the jurisdiction of the Federal Mari- time Commission and inhibited commercial initiatives by the liner in- dustry to provide transport ...
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Page 150 - The board may by order disapprove, cancel, or modify any agreement, or any modification or cancellation thereof, whether or not previously approved by it, that it finds to be unjustly discriminatory or unfair as between carriers, shippers, exporters, importers, or ports, or between exporters from the United States and their foreign competitors, or to operate to the detriment of the commerce of the United States, or to be in violation of this Act, and shall approve all other agreements, modifications,...
Page 99 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic...
Page 43 - That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 99 - States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times, (b) capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 132 - Sec. 901." and by adding at the end of the section the following new subsection : "(b) whenever the United States shall procure, contract for, or otherwise obtain for Its own account, or shall furnish to or for the account of any foreign nation without provision for reimbursement, any equipment, materials, or commodities, within or without the United States, or shall advance funds or credits or guarantee the convertibility of foreign currencies in connection with the furnishing of such equipment,...
Page 143 - ... may be exercised, directly or indirectly, in behalf of any person who is not a citizen of the United States...
Page 163 - States, and whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $5,000, or to imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
Page 99 - ... owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine.
Page 139 - Whoever knowingly .makes any false statement of a material fact in any such declaration shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $5,000, or to imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
Page 166 - Whenever a carrier by railroad shall in competition with a water route or routes reduce the rates on the carriage of any species of freight to or from competitive points, it shall not be permitted to increase such rates unless after hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission it shall be found that such proposed increase rests upon changed conditions other than the elimination of water competition.