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Show IIIIIED STATES TO Be SUPPLIED FIRST Shipments cf Coal and Certain Cer-tain Foods to Canada Will Be Checked. WASHINGTON". ept. 1 1. Continued export of coal to Canada In large amounts through great lakes ports at the expense of the northwestern states will be checked by the fuel administration. Dr. A. H. Garfield, the fuel administrator, today requested re-quested the exports administrative board to permit no-more coal to be shipped out of the countrv except under license restrictions, re-strictions, and asked that no licenses be granted unless they are approved by the fuel administration. Coal heretofore, along with other American products, has gone to Canada under blanket licenses Fssued by collectors of customs. Shipment of certain foods to Canada and Newfoundland, under a ruling tonight to-night by the exports administrative board, hereafter will require the same form of license demanded for their export ex-port to other countries. Heretofore they have gone forward under blanket licenses issued by collectors of customs. The purpose of the order, it was ex-! ex-! plained Is to provide means of closer ! co-operation between the American and Canadian food administrators and to put the United States in position to conserve its supplies if shortages appear likely. The foods named are wheat, wheat flour, butter and sugar. Licensing, It was said, will permit the food administrators to keep a closer check on supplies in each country. coun-try. For the present, it la understood, there is no intention to restrict food shipments to Canada to any marked extent. It may be necessary later on, however, to regulate exports somewhat. Shipments now in transit are excepted in the order, which also makes provision for small shipments by producers and dealers living close to the border. Collectors Col-lectors of customs are directed to permit per-mit shipments to go through without license when not in excess of the following fol-lowing quantities: Wheat, 125 bushels; flour, twenty-five barrels; butter, 125 pounds; sugar, twenty-five barrels. Any exporters who attempt to take advantage ad-vantage of the small-lot exceptions hy shipping in broken lots will have their goods held. Shipments of food in the amounts that may go to Canada without license will be permitted to go forward to Mexico under un-der the same terms, the exports bqfird announced tonight. Complaints have come to the boa.rd that weekly market purchases have been held up on the Mexican Mexi-can border by zealous collectors when no export license could be shown by the purchaser. |