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1941/1945

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fra

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1001 Hanoi (DECOUX)
To: Vichy (Colonies)
26 April 1944
PHU

Rn.2840-2842

(3 parts complete)

Please find herewith the information requested in your N°. 1786 of 15 March, section 1, on the organisation and functioning of the government departments responsible for the fixing and control of prices.

1. Price-fixing.

A. A system of prior ratification of decisions pertaining to prices of local products.

a. For products of Indo-China as a whole; ratification secured by decree of the (t'Commanding General?) issued after opinion from a central price commission under the chairmanship of the Director of Economic Affairs.

b. For products of Industrial --G-- and eventually certain agricultural and forestry products; prices fixed by decree of the local chief administrative officer, issued after opinion from a local commission.

c. For handicraft and farm products, produced in the provinces and for consumption in the provinces; price-fixing by the mayors or heads of provinces after opinion from a provincial commission.

d. For service trades; procedure for price-fixing according to the same principles.

e. For certain farm products of interest to Indochina as a whole and subject to a government monopoly arrangement (just, rattle, cotton, --1H-- --1G-- etc.); price-fixing at the production level by decree of the Governor-General.

B. --G-- system --2H-- permitting control of prices at the distribution-level on local and imported products subject to price-regulation. The control is under the jurisdiction of local price commissions.

Vichy French

File D-3159

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No.124075

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