Argentine decree effective in April 1932 for control of grain-marketing operations. Australian measures granting export bounties and subsidies. Brazilian decrees, November 1932, forbidding planting of coffee and limiting production of sugar. Czechoslovakian act in 1932 for regulation of foreign trade. Danish laws, March 1932 and March 1933, for control of sugar industry; and law of December 23, 1932, for control of exportation of cattle, swine, dairy products, and eggs. Ecuador, decree of December 29, 1932, for export-control service. Estonia, law of November 25, 1932, for Government regulation of private enterprise, control of prices and quality of goods, subsidies to be granted to exporters of agricultural products. Finnish bounties on exports of butter and cheese under law of December 21, 1932. French budget law of March 1933, providing Government price fixing on imports; Government monopoly of petroleum imports proposed. British Guiana, ordinance in 1932 creating rice-marketing board. Hungarian Government office for foreign trade established December 1, 1932 to grant export premiums. Irish Free State, export bounties extended in December 1932. Italian decree, December 7, 1932, for Government control of the building of new industrial establishments. Latvian Government monopoly for exportation of hogs and bacon, under decree of October 4, 1932; and resolution of October 28 for Government control of exportation of butter. Mexican federal marketing act, 1932, for control of production and transportation of vegetables. Farm products classed as "public utilities." Netherlands emergency hog act, July 1932, and dairy crisis law of June 1932. New Zealand compulsory wheat pool established in 1933. Panama act creating export control service, December 1932. Persian trade monopoly act of 1931 amended by acts in June and July 1932. Poland, decree for control of importation and exportation of petroleum, October 12, 1932. Rumanian syndicate of grain exporters under Government supervision, 1932. South African tobacco act of 1932, providing complete Government control of the tobacco trade. Swedish decree, July 28, 1932. Government to fix prices on surplus grain crop; decree effective in February 1933 for Government monopoly of importation of dairy products. Turkish wheat stabilization plan under law of July 3, 1932. Yugoslavian state monopolies act, effective in April 1932; amendment to law for control of trade in drugs, 1933, under which the price "must be in accord with the cost of production." 16326-33--10 FISCAL AFFAIRS APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES Appropriations available to the Commission for the fiscal year 1933, under the Independent Offices Act approved June 30, 1932, were $1,426,714.70; under the Fourth Deficiency Act approved June 16, 1933, $25,000; in all, $1,451,714.70. This sum was made up of three separate items: (1) $50,000 for salaries of the Commissioners, (2) $1,371,714.70 for the general work of the Commission, and (3) $30,000 for printing and binding. Appropriations, expenditures, liabilities, and balances Expenditures and liabilities for the year amounted to $1,398,973.14, which leaves a balance of $52,741.56, of which the sum of $25,000 is available for expenditures during the fiscal year 1934; $16,891.70 represents net vacancy impoundments; and $10,000 printing and binding funds which were not released for expenditure by the Bureau of the Budget, leaving an actual balance of $849.86. Detailed statement of costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933 |