POLICY TOWARDS OUR FOREIGN COLLEAGUES AND HAVING RECEIVED YOUR ASSURANCE OF SINCERE COOPERATION, I MUST NOW INSIST THAT THE OPERATIONS NOW BEING CARRIED OUT IN GERMANY BE CONCLUDED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND THAT IN ANY EVENT NO NEW BUSINESS OF THIS KIND BE INITIATED ...'.
248 WHEN HOTTLET PURCHASED FROM RT AND SOLD TO A CUSTOMER TWO CONSIGNMENTS OF SUGAR AND THE CUSTOMER LATER REQUESTED HOTTLET TO RELEASE IT FROM THE OBLIGATION ONLY TO USE THIS SUGAR FOR DENATURING, RT WITHELD ITS CONSENT AND CLAIMED COMPENSATION FROM HOTTLET, BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THESE EVENTS THE LATTER DID NOT TAKE DELIVERY FROM RT OF THE REMAINDER OF THE SAID CONSIGNMENTS ( CF . IN PARTICULAR LETTER OF RT TO HOTTLET OF 16 DECEMBER 1969, ANNEX I 42 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ).
249 EXPORT, IN A REPORT OF 20 APRIL 1970 RECORDING A CONVERSATION BETWEEN RT AND EXPORT ( ANNEX I 74 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ), AFTER REFERRING TO 'RT'S OBLIGATIONS UNDERTAKEN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RATIONALIZATION OF THE EUROPEAN SUGAR INDUSTRY' AND OF THE 'CONCERTED ACTION BETWEEN EUROPEAN REFINERS' RECORDS THAT 'IN THIS WAY A SERIES OF DIRECT TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN REFINERS TO THE PRODUCER' - THE LAST TWO WORDS SHOULD PROBABLY READ 'OR PRODUCERS' - CEASE TO FORM PART OF THE BUSINESS RELATIONS BETWEEN RT AND EXPORT IN ... GERMANY ( TRADE WITH PFEIFER UND LANGEN )'.
250 AN INTERNAL MEMORANDUM DRAWN UP BY EXPORT OF 23 APRIL 1970 ( ANNEX I 75 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ) STATES 'TIRLEMONT HAS ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE OTHER REFINERS OF THE GERMAN MARKET GRANTING EACH OTHER EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS, UNDER WHICH MARKETING IN THE COUNTRY OF DESTINATION IS RESERVED TO THE REFINERS OF THAT COUNTRY . CONSEQUENTLY NO PLACE IS RESERVED FOR EXPORT ... IN GERMANY THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS HAS BEEN NEGLIGIBLE SINCE THE REVALUATION OF THE DM . NEVERTHELESS THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRADE IN THE FRONTIER REGIONS ... OF GERMANY ... THE REFINERS' POLICY ENSURES THE FAILURE OF THIS REGIONALIZATION ... IT IS DOUBTFUL WHETHER WE CAN OBTAIN A QUOTA, BECAUSE RT WILL NOT WISH TO GUARANTEE A POLICY WHICH RUNS COUNTER TO THE AGREEMENTS IT HAS ENTERED INTO WITH THE OTHER REFINERS '.
251 SEVERAL DOCUMENTS WHICH ORIGINATED BETWEEN 19 DECEMBER 1968 AND 15 AUGUST 1970, AND IN PARTICULAR A SERIES OF PURCHASE CONTRACTS CONCLUDED BY BELGIAN DEALERS ( ANNEXES I 28 TO 32, 34, 35, 41, 43, 129 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ) LOOKED AT AS A WHOLE SHOW THAT THE LATTER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WISHES OF RT AND THE OTHER PRODUCERS ACTING AT THE REQUEST OR ON THE ADVICE OF THE LATTER, UNDERTOOK OR WERE PREPARED TO GIVE AN UNDERTAKING NOT TO EXPORT THE SUGAR COVERED BY THESE DOCUMENTS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION TO THE OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE COMMON MARKET INCLUDING GERMANY .
252 EXPORT IN ONE OF THESE DOCUMENTS ( LETTER TO NAVEAU OF 31 JULY 1970, ANNEX I 129 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE