“Quota” on Chilled.

When one remembers the interest of the British worker in cheap food, and the interest of the British people in Danish trade, the reasoning behind that butter preference (falling as price rises) is plain to see. If anyone says that the Mother Country should simply have given her whole butter market to the Dominions, well—would Dorman Long (whose employees eat butter) have secured that bridge contract in Denmark? While Britain gives no “quota” in butter, she does give a “quota” in meat, and in doing so she has done what some more cautious Britons thought she would not do—she has placed a limitation on the quantity imported of Argentine chilled, for which there is in Britain a popular preference.

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British capital in Argentina does not like this, but tells the Argentine people that the cure is to “buy British,” and thus reduce the unbalance of Argentine trade with Britain.