Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-04 | Page 7 | Porters Warned by Trade Council

PORTERS WARNED l BY TRADE COUNCIL EW YORK, Sept. 3. American man- turors and exporters were cautioned .'rdke. their meaning clear to foreign "ins in their use of the term "f. o. b. ," to avoid misunderstanding and 'uslon and possible damage to Amer-overseas Amer-overseas trade in a letter sent to ', 1 mirl made public here tonight by ! national foreign trade council. Hces quoted "f. o. b. tv'c.w York," it .pointed nut, mean in Australia and countries that the goods will be id aboard ship by the seller and that j'purchaser will have no charges to J. except those of ocean freight and '.anee. ' j fact is, however, says the council, , some business men have interpreted erm "I. . b. New York" to mean ,'iy delivery within the port with the ; i that charges for cartage, lighter-storage lighter-storage and other items have been along to the bewildered foreign .',.ia:'er, who construes tho phrase to "aboard ship."