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3. The equivalent minimum price for bulk wheat for: (a) No. 1 Manitoba Northern wheat f.o.b. Vancouver, (b) f.a.q . wheat f.o .b . Australia, (c) sample wheat of France (minimum natural weight seventy-six kilograms per hectolitre; minimum protein content ten per cent; maximum dockage and moisture content two per cent and fifteen per cent respectively) f.o.b. French ports, (d) f.a.q . top grade wheat f.o.b . Uruguay, (e) No. 1 Hard Winter wheat f.o .b . Gulf/Atlantic ports of the United States of America, and (f) No. 1 Soft White wheat or No. 1 Hard Winter wheat f.o.b. Pacific ports of the United States of America, shall be respectively: the f.o.b. prices Vancouver, Australia, France, Uruguay, United States of America Gulf/Atlantic ports and the United States of America Pacific ports equivalent to the c. & f. prices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the minimum prices for No. 1 Manitoba Northern wheat in bulk in store Fort William/Port Arthur specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, computed by using currently prevailing trans- portation costs and exchange rates and, in those importing countries where a quality differential is recognized, by making such allowance for difference in quality as may be agreed between the exporting country and the importing country concerned. 4. The Executive Committee may, in consultation with the Advisory Committee on Price Equivalents, at any date subsequent to August 1, 1949 designate any description of wheat other than those specified in paragraphs 2 and 3 above and determine the minimum and maxi- mum price equivalents thereof; provided that in the case of any other description of wheat the price equivalent of which has not yet been determined, the minimum and maximum prices for the time being shall be derived from the minimum and maximum prices of the de- scription of wheat specified in this Article, or subsequently designated by the Executive Committee in consultation with the Advisory Committee on Price Equivalents, which is most closely comparable to such other description, by the addition of an appropriate premium or by the deduction of an appropriate discount. 5. If any exporting or importing country represents to the Execu- tive Committee that any price equivalent established under paragraph 2, 3, or 4 of this Article is, in the light of current transportation or exchange rates or market premiums or discounts, no longer fair, the Executive Committee shall consider the matter and may, in consulta- tion with the Advisory Committee on Price Equivalents, make such adjustment as it considers desirable. 6. If a dispute arises as to what premium or discount is appropriate for the purposes of paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Article in respect of any description of wheat specified in paragraph 2 or 3 or designated under 2184 TREATIES [63 STAT.