You can't use the foreign tax credit against non-foreign income, so a carryback would not benefit you if you didn't have any foreign income in the previous year. That is why your credit allowed in the current year is less than the full amount of foreign taxes paid. The only way you could take the full credit in the current year is if all your income was foreign income in the current year.
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