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 The American folder runs as follows:

PROJECT FOR AN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF MEXICO

A committee has decided to submit to American residents and American firms established or interested in Mexico a proposal for the formation of an American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City.

It is proposed to establish a purely commercial and non-political organisation which will foment the friendly trade relations between Mexico and the United States, and which, in co-operation with the representatives of the United States in Mexico, will be able to initiate as active a campaign for American trade as is now being carried on by organisations of other countries for their own interests.

To establish a nucleus upon which all American interests may centre and present a united front not only toward internal problems of trade, but also, through intercourse with chambers of commerce in the United States, toward the attitude of a great body of American manufacturers who, by reason of misinformation and by inaction, are imperiling their hold on a market which under all economic laws should be inalienably theirs.

To form a clearing house wherein business offered to firms outside of their particular line may