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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 determined 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 subparagraph (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. (e) If within fourteen days of the notification by the Secretary of the Council under subparagraph (b) the whole of the unfulfilled guaranteed quantity of the importing country concerned, 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 circumstances which the exporting and the importing countries may wish to submit for consideration and in particular to the industrial programme of any country as well as to the normal traditional volume and ratio of imports of wheat-flour and wheat grain imported by the importing country concerned, shall, within seven days, decide the quantities, and also if requested to do so the quality and grade, of wheat grain and/or wheat-flour which it is appropriate for each or any of the exporting countries to sell to that importing country for loading during the relevant crop-year. (d) Each exporting country required by the Council's decision under subparagraph (c) to offer quantities of wheat grain and/or wheatflour for sale to the importing country shall, within thirty days from the date of that decision, offer to sell those quantities to such importing country for loading during the relevant crop-year at prices consistent with the maximum prices specified in or determined under Article VI and, unless those countries agree otherwise, on the same conditions regarding the currency in which payment is to be made as prevail generally between them at that time. If no trade relations have hitherto existed between the exporting country and the importing country concerned and if those countries fail to agree on the currency in which payment is to be made, the Council shall decide the issue.