Samuel Untermyer, in a letter to Stephen B. Gibbons, assistant Secretary of the Treasury, which was made public yesterday demanded that a recent Treasury amendment ruling that Germany and other foreign countries must label all exports to this country with the name of the country of origin, be enforced promptly.
According to the amendment, enforcement will be begun three months after publication of the law, or on May 8, 1934. Untermyer demanded that this period of grace be shortened. Heretofore, he said, it has been the custom of foreign exporters to disguise origin of goods by labeling with the name of the city, state, or territory of their origin rather than the name of the country.
The head of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League threatened to take legal action if the time limit were not shortened.
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