# Merchant Shipping(Liner Conferences) Act 1982, Paragraph 8


If the trade of a country carried by shipping lines members of a conference on a particular route consists largely of one or few basic commodities, any increase in the freight rate on one or more of those commodities shall be treated as a general freight-rate increase, and the appropriate provisions of this Code shall apply.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/37/schedule/part/ONE/chapter/IV/crossheading/article-14-general-freightrate-increases/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shippingliner-conferences-act-1982/schedule/part-ONE/chapter-IV/crossheading-article-14-general-freightrate-increases/paragraph-8
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