This is too simple a case. An answer based on that kind of case could only be a proper answer, a right answer by accident, because that is not all the case.

If exports of cheese reduce the price of cheese, you still have to come back to the proposition that the fellow who raises the milk out of which the cheese is made, is a dairyman. The dairy exports of last year were 22 times dairy imports; that the restriction against any import does have an effect on exports.

Senator BRICKER. What was the nature of most of the dairy exports? Mr. KLINE. I have that here.

Senator BRICKER. Would you supply that?

The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it will be inserted for the record. (The information referred to follows:)

Value of exports and imports of dairy products, calendar years, 1946–50

United States trade in 19501 with countries that have protested against import restrictions under section 104 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended

I. TRADE WITH CANADA

United States trade in 1950 with countries that have protested against import restrictions under section 104 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as

United States trade in 1950 with countries that have protested against import restrictions under section 104 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as

United States trade in 1950 with countries that have protested against import restrictions under section 104 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as

Mr. KLINE. Now in addition, one has to weigh from a dairyman's standpoint, the effect of the spread of that sort of restrictive proposition to other elements in agriculture, and to other elements in the whole economy, because you can never take off a small piece of the economy and solve a problem there without having an effect on the rest of the economy.

I think that is relatively obvious.

You can take any one of these countries. The first one I see here is France. We exported to France, last year, $109 million worth of cotton. We imported from France, $1,067,000 worth of roquefort cheese, $41,000 worth of other cheese.

We imported from France, total agricultural commodities of $22 million. We exported to France, $146 million. That is a rough figure.

Senator BRICKER. Was that a part of the economic aid program? Mr. KLINE. That is one of the troubles I come to. I do not want to put your question off, but I want to answer it later.

The obvious effect of real restriction against imports is to stop exports, so immediately the dairyman becomes interested in what would happen to acres normally used for cotton for export if you cannot export cotton, and one of the alternative uses is for the production of dairy products.

It might not be the first thing the cotton man decides to do because he does not like to milk. It might be the second thing or the third thing, but some would do it and there is a tremendous growing knowledge of how it can be done in that area.

That applies to all these other things we support-tobacco, cotton, and wheat.