U.S. exporters, just getting back on their peacetime feet, were knocked to their knees again last week. Civilian Production Administrator Jack Small admitted that the U.S. will limit export of hundreds more scarce articles. (Tinplate, autos, etc., are already under export quotas.)
Since the end of the war CPA has been faced with the problem of domestic v. foreign demand for goods. While OPA lived, the problem was minor. Ceiling prices on exports left too small a margin of profit to suck any large amount of goods away from the domestic market. But...
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