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Membership is desired to be held by the individual manufacturer representative firm at the doing-business-as (DBA) company level, although parent companies of manufacturer representative firms are separately eligible for Associate membership. In the latter instance, the parent company’s dues would be calculated based on the sum of the dues for all their respective held companies minus any dues paid by their individual companies holding a separate WWEMA membership, subject to a $5,000 minimum and an $18,000 maximum dues level.

The private equity company’s dues is calculated based on this total minus the amount of WWEMA dues paid by a private equity parent company subsidiary(ies). The total dues amount is subject to a $5,000 minimum dues level. Please call our office at (703) 444-1777 to verify the dues amount paid in the current year by WWEMA-member subsidiary companies to calculate the exact dues amount owed by the private equity parent company.

The Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association (WWEMA) is a trade association whose purpose is to promote the common interest of its members and the water and wastewater industry at large, when such interests do not conflict with the common good. WWEMA is not intended to become involved, and it will not become involved, in the competitive decisions of its member companies; nor will it take action that would tend to restrain competition in the water and wastewater equipment industry. Nevertheless, it is recognized by the Board of Directors of WWEMA that its activities could be regarded by some as a forum of opportunity to promote anti-competitive conduct. For this reason, the Board of Directors has taken this occasion, through this Statement of Policy, to make clear its unequivocal support for the policy of competition served by the antitrust laws, as well as its uncompromising intent to comply strictly in all respects with those laws. To that end, the following will not be discussed at meetings: • Current or future prices • What constitutes a “fair” profit level • Possible increases or decreases in prices • Standardization or stabilization of prices • Pricing procedures • Cash discounts • Credit terms • Control of sales • Allocations of markets or geographical division of markets • Refusal to deal with a corporation because of its pricing or distribution practices • Whether or not the pricing practices of any industry member are unethical or constitute an unfair trade practice • Plans to bid or refrain from bidding or submit pricing to bidders on future public projects. Compliance with these guidelines involves not only avoidance of antitrust violation, but avoidance of any behavior which might be considered improper. Antitrust laws are complex and far reaching. This statement is not a complete summary of all applicable laws. It is intended to highlight and emphasize certain basic precautions designed to avoid antitrust problems. In case of doubt, seek the guidance of staff, management, the organization’s counsel, or your own trusted corporate counsel, should antitrust questions arise.

The Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association (WWEMA) and its member companies voluntarily pledge to conduct themselves according to the highest professional standards and laws of society. We shall strive to provide products and services of quality and value. We shall conduct our business with honesty and integrity. We shall make truthful representations as to the performance of our products. We shall work to maintain our professional skills—and those of our employees—at the state of the art. And we shall hold paramount the health and safety of the public in the performance of our business. Adopted by the WWEMA Board of Directors on May 6, 1991, in Washington, D.C.