Non-national-flag Ocean Shipping Rates, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of ..., 93-2, December 6, 1973 and November 25, 19741974 - 86 pages |
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Page 70 - The question of the reasonableness of a rate of charge for transportation by a railroad company, involving as it does the element of reasonableness both as regards the company and as regards the public, is eminently a question for judicial investigation, requiring due process of law for its determination.
Page 84 - On the other hand, the committee feels that in the absence of Government control steamship combinations may in many instances have it within their power to arbitrarily raise rates to an unreasonable degree both as regards the general level and in the case of particular commodities; or, if they so desire, to fail in maintaining rates from the United States to foreign markets on a parity with those from other countries.
Page 68 - Parties to any agreement approved by the Commission under this section and other persons are, if the approval of such agreement is not prohibited by paragraph (4), (5), or (6), hereby relieved from the operation of the antitrust laws with respect to the making of such agreement, and with respect to the carrying out of such agreement in conformity with its provisions and in conformity with the terms and conditions prescribed by the Commission.
Page 75 - Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Steamship Conferences of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 86th Cong., 1st sess.
Page 27 - No change shall be made in the rates, fares, or charges, or classifications, rules, or regulations, which have been filed and posted as required by this section, except by the publication, filing, and posting as aforesaid of a new schedule or schedules which shall become effective not earlier than thirty days a'fter date of posting and filing thereof with the board and such schedule or schedules shall plainly show the changes proposed to be made in the schedule or schedules then in force and the...
Page 67 - The Commission shall not approve under this section any agreement which it finds is an agreement with respect to a pooling, division, or other matter or transaction, to which section 5 of this Act is applicable.
Page 77 - ... (2) No change shall be made in rates, charges, classifications, rules or regulations, which results in an increase in cost to the shipper, nor shall any new or initial rate of any common carrier by water in foreign commerce or conference of such carriers be instituted, except by the publication, and filing...
Page 67 - ... and shall modify the terms and conditions upon which such approval was granted to the extent it finds necessary to insure conformity with snch standard or to the extent to which it finds such terms and conditions not necessary to insure such conformity.
Page 67 - Approval] (2) Any carrier party to an agreement between or among two or more carriers relating to rates, fares, classifications, divisions, allowances, or charges (including charges between carriers and compensation paid or received for the use of facilities and equipment...
Page 27 - ... filing, as aforesaid, of a new tariff or tariffs which shall become effective not earlier than thirty days after the date of publication and filing thereof with the Commission, and...