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Priorities Regulation 33, Direction 1, Mail-Order Houses Permitted to Continue Amended Catalog Prices on Building Materials

Washington, D. C., Feb. IWidening the channel through which it is moving lumber, millwork and hardwood flooring into the Reconversion Housing Program, the Civilian Production Administration today issued an amendment to Priorities Regulation 33, Direction 1.

The new amendment broadens the use of the certification of orders established by Direction 1 by permitting a distributor to place certified orders for housing construction lumber with a distributor who sells at wholesale. officials explained.

The "wholesale" distributor who uses his inventory to fill certified orders from other distributors is permitted bv the Amendment to replace it by placing certified orders with a sawmill. However, such inventory replacements are subject to the limits which Direction I places on the sale of lumber purchased on a certified order.

Defining "jobbers" as those who buy and stock millwork or hardwood flooring for resale at wholesale, the Amendment permits them to place certified orders with millwork and hardwood flooring manufacturers for delivery in February and March, 1946. The Amendment limits the total quantity which the jobber may place for February and March delivery to not more than 1O percent of the amount of his 1940 millwork (in units, pieces, or footage) or hardwood flooring receipts, and stipulates that whatever quantities are obtained on certified orders must be held for 60 days following receipt for orders rated HH or AAA.

An amendment to the General Order authorizing community ceilings on building materials, efiective January 30, 1946, permits mail-order firms to apply to the OPA for authority to continue sales at uniform catalog prices, when such sales are made by mail and on the basis of published catalog prices.

This action was necessary to allow mail-order firms to continue their characteristic business practices which would be impossible if they were compelled to recognize the area pricing orders for building materials listed in their catalogs.

To come under the provisions of the amendment, sellers must make special application to the Office of Price Administration, Building Materials and Construction Price Branch, Washington 25, D. C. For a seller to employ cata1og, rather than area, prices on sales by mail, he must establish historically published catalog prices and must have sold at least 20 per cent of his total dollar volume on,this basis.

(Amendment No. 3, General Order No. 68; effective January 30, 1946.)

Amendment 20 to MPR l55-Hcrdwood Lumber

An increase averaging about 7/o in manufacturers' ceilings for standard grades of hardwood produced in the south central hardwood region was announced by OPA. (Amendment 20 to MPR 155, effective Feb. 11.)

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