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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 transportation 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 maximum 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 description 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 Executive Committee that any price equivalent established under paragraph 2, 3, or 4 of this Article is, in the light of current transportation of exchange rates or market premiums or discounts, no longer fair, the Executive Committee shall consider the matter and may, in consultation 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 paragraph 4 of this Article, the Executive Committee, in consultation with the Advisory Committee on Price Equivalents, shall on the request of the exporting or importing country concerned decide the issue. 7. All decisions of the Executive Committee under paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 of this Article shall be binding on all exporting and importing countries, provided that any of those countries which considers that any such decision is disadvantageous to it may ask the Council to review that decision. 8. In order to encourage and expedite the conclusion of transactions in wheat between them at prices mutually acceptable in the light of all the circumstances, the exporting and importing countries,