Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-10 | Page 4 | Exports and Imports to be under License

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS TO BE UNDER LICENSE Plans to Reduce the Country's Non-Essential Non-Essential Foreign Trade Well Under Way. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. Plans for reducing the country's less essential foreign for-eign trade to release ships for the traus-port traus-port of troops and supplies to Europe, will be completed within a few days, and President Wilson's proclamation putting ail exports and imports under license as a preliminary step will be issued is-sued probably February IS. The programme, it is understood, calls for a considerable enlargement of the war trade board and its functions, and contemplates a larger representation representa-tion on the board of other government departments. The allies, too, probably will be given representation in some manner, inasmuch as they also intend a further reduction of other foreign commerce. com-merce. All the countries fighting Germany are preparing to put their s:.ii s to war uses, eliminating services whica can not be regarded as t-sential. The i-hu Ting board today created a division of plan-nine plan-nine aud statistics, with E. F. Gay of Harvard at its head. This division will work with the war trade board in determining deter-mining what imports and exports can be reduced or eliminated.