It seems that Elixir prohibit all their US distributors from shipping Elixir string abroad. Typically, Elixir strings are about half the price in the USA that they are in the UK.

This clearly indicates an anti-competitive practice (market partitioning, to keep proces up) of a type that would be likely to be illegal in the EU.

Your views (heric, INOBU, and other US lawyers in particular).....