KFX Burns Esq
Trade Policy Department
FCO
Daar Bwas
British Embassy
TOKYO
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7 April 1971
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JAPAN'S GENERALISED PREFERENCES SCHEME
In his letter 6/67 of 27 November Peter Wakefield enclosed a copy ́of an article from the Criental Economist which suggested that
Japan's main concern in the Generalised Preferences Scheme was that her manufacturers would face increased competition in the American market from developing countries which had been given preferences by the US. You may be interested in this context in translations
of some tables which appeared recently in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and which list the products of developing countries from which Japanese manufacturers face serious competition both in their own market and in the USA. A further table lists those products on which Japan expects 'competition to increase in the near future.
Yours sumirely,
ཁ་ག་ང་ཨ་ཚིས་ John Whirchand
J S Whitehead
cc W Dorward Esq
Commerce and Industry Department
HONG KONG
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