AS FOLLOWS : NO MOVEMENT OF GOODS FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY SAVE BY AGREEMENT BETWEEN PRODUCER AND PRODUCER '.
151 A TELEX MESSAGE FROM RT TO EXPORT OF 20 AUGUST 1970 ( ANNEX I 84 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ) STATES THAT : 'IN THE CASE OF THE NETHERLANDS IMPORT REQUIREMENTS OF SUGAR FOR CONSUMPTION IN THE NETHERLANDS, YOU CEASE TO DEAL WITH ANY TRANSACTIONS OTHER THAN THE REQUESTS MADE BY THE NETHERLANDS SUGAR INDUSTRY WHICH INTENDS TO KEEP CONTROL OF THIS MARKET . THE NETHERLANDS SUGAR INDUSTRY, AS YOU MOREOVER HAVE CONFIRMED TO US, TOLD US THAT AT PRESENT THE SITUATION IN THE NETHERLANDS DOES NOT JUSTIFY IMPORT OPERATIONS . SINCE WE DO NOT INTEND TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL IN CONNEXION WITH CONSUMPTION IN THE NETHERLANDS WHICH IS NOT APPROVED BY OUR NETHERLANDS COLLEAGUES, THERE IS NO NEED TO EXAMINE AT THE MOMENT TRANSACTIONS IN BELGIAN SUGAR FOR THESE OUTLETS ... SUPPLYING THE MILK PRODUCTS INDUSTRY IS ANOTHER MATTER ...'
152 RT POINTS OUT TO EXPORT IN A LETTER OF 31 AUGUST 1970 ( ANNEX I 85 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ) THAT 'SO FAR AS THE NETHERLANDS ARE CONCERNED WE DO NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING WHICH MIGHT UPSET SU OR CSM, JUST AS THEY DO NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING WHICH WOULD DISTURB US '.
153 EXPORT IN A LETTER OF 10 OCTOBER 1970 TO JACOBSON CONFIRMING A SALE ( ANNEX I 88 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ) - AFTER HAVING POINTED OUT THAT RT GRANTED THIS FIRM AND HOTTLET FOR THE 1970/71 MARKETING YEAR THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO SELL ITS GRANULATED SUGAR FOR EXPORT AND AFTER EMPHASIZING THAT RT DID NOT INTEND TO DO ANYTHING ON THE NETHERLANDS MARKET 'WHICH HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY ITS TWO NETHERLANDS COLLEAGUES' - STATES THAT THESE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS 'DERIVE FROM AN UNDERTAKING GIVEN BY THREE OLD ESTABLISHED NETHERLANDS BUSINESS HOUSES THAT THE BELGIAN GRANULATED SUGAR COMPRISED IN THIS AND THE LATER CONTRACTS IN THE 1970/71 MARKETING YEAR ARE INTENDED TO BE DELIVERED TO THE ULTIMATE TAKERS-PURCHASERS-CONSUMERS WHICH THE NETHERLANDS SUGAR INDUSTRY ( CSM - SU ) AGREES CAN BE SUPPLIED '.
154 EXPORT IN A TELEX MESSAGE TO A GERMAN DEALER OF 14 SEPTEMBER 1970 - WHICH REFERS TO A TELEX MESSAGE OF 11 SEPTEMBER IN WHICH THE SAID DEALER REFERRED TO 'DIFFERENT CUSTOMERS IN THE NETHERLANDS ... WHICH URGENTLY NEED OFFERS' ( CF . ANNEXES I 107, 108 TO THE STATEMENTS OF DEFENCE ) - MENTIONS INTER ALIA THAT 'REGARDING THE NETHERLANDS MARKET FOR WHICH YOU ASKED US ALSO OFFERS AND WROTE TO US FOR RATHER IMMEDIATE SELLING POSSIBILITIES OF AROUND 15 000 TONS OF BELGIAN CRYSTAL SUGAR ON THE 1970/71 CROP, WE CONFIRM YOU POSITIVELY THAT OUR MAIN BELGIAN SUGAR MANUFACTURERS, THE RT GROUP, WORKING THEMSELVES IN CLOSE CONTACT ( THROUGH TRADE INTERMEDIARIES ) WITH THE NETHERLANDS INDUSTRY GROUPS CSM AND SU, FOR THE NETHERLANDS CONSUMPTION HOME MARKET, ARE NOT PRESENTLY SELLERS FOR SUCH DESTINATION, OUTSIDE THEIR TRADITIONAL REFINERS CHANNEL, AND ANYWAY WAITING