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(f) If any exporting or importing country considers it probable that the full amount of wheat already entered in the Council's records against its guaranteed quantity for the current crop- year will not be loaded within that crop-year, that country may request the Council to make appropriate reductions in the amounts entered in its records. The Council shall consider ,the matter and, if it decides that the request is justified, shall amend its records accordingly. (g) Any wheat purchased by an importing country from an export- ing country and resold to another importing country may, by agreement of the importing countries concerned, be entered against the unfulfilled guaranteed purchases of the importing country to which the wheat is finally resold provided that a corresponding reduction is made in the amount entered against the guaranteed purchases of the first importing country. (h) The Council shall send to all exporting and importing countries, weekly or at such other interval as the Council may prescribe in its rules of procedure, a statement of the amounts entered in its records against guaranteed quantities. (i) The Council shall notify all exporting and importing countries immediately when the guaranteed quantity of any exporting or importing country for any crop-year has been fulfilled. 6. Each exporting country and each importing country may be permitted, in the fulfillment of its guaranteed quantities, a degree of tolerance to be prescribed by the Council for that country on the basis of the size of its guaranteed quantities and other relevant factors. ARTICLE V Enforcement of Rights 1. (a) Any importing country which finds difficulty in purchasing its unfulfilled guaranteed quantity for any crop year at prices consistent with the maximum prices specified in or deter- mined under Article VI may request the Council's help in making the desired purchases. (b) Within three days of the receipt of a request under sub- paragraph (a) the Secretary of the Council shall notify those exporting countries which have unfulfilled guaranteed quantities for the relevant crop-year of the amount of the unfulfilled guaranteed quantity of the importing country which has requested the Council's help and invite them to offer to sell wheat at prices consistent with the maximum prices specified in or determined under Article VI. (c) If within fourteen days of the notification by the Secretary of the Council under subparagraph (b) the whole of the un- fulfilled guaranteed quantity of the importing country con- cerned, or such part thereof as in the opinion of the Council is reasonable at the time the request is made, has not been offered for sale, the Council, having regard to any circum- 2180 [63 STAT. TREATIES