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In the continuing adjustment of our own international trade fjoiicy, a factor of growing importance and concern is the steady increase in production costs of many domestic products, tradeable to the inflationary wage-price spiral, which is pricing, us out of the wor^d market on.agrowng list of item*.
Particularly in sgriculpire, there has been disappointment, too, at what hat e appeared to many to be halfhearted efforts on the B?/t of our trade negotiators to obtain reciprocal reducion? in the artificial trade barriers erected against our agricultural products by other nations. At the same time, we have granted these countries concession after concession with respect to the United States. In other words, reciprocal trade has not been truly reciprocal when applied to American agriculture’s quest for overseas markets.
A case in point is fresh and canned fruits, notably the apples which Virginia growers would like to sell in a Western Europe of growing prosperity and increasing dollar supply. In Western Germany, ,we often! don’t know until late in the shipping season whether or .not our apples will be admitted, although Western Germany does admit fruit from other European countries. In France, some American apples are being allowed entrance this season, but there has
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