EN CLAIR
TOKYO
TELNO.236
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
12 MAY, 1969
UNCLASSIFIED
[HEUTRAL]
ADDSD TO
су
Cy File
146.
FCO TELNO 236 OF 12 MAY REPTD FOR INFOR TO WTON
HONG KONG SEOUL UKDEL BRUSSELS UKMIS GENEVA AND SAVING
PARIS BONN ROME BERNE BRUSSELS THE HAGUE .
STANS.
US TEXTILE IMPORTS.
STANS ARRIVED IN TOKYO ON 10 MAY FOR CONSULTATIONS WITH
JAPANESE GOVT.
2. IN HIS SPEECH ON ARRIVAL STANS EMPHASISED THE EFFECT
OF NON TARIFF BARRIERS IN NULLIFYING THE RESULTS OF THE
KENNEDY ROUND.
THE US BELIEVED IN THE NECESSITY OF RECIPROCITY BETWEEN
WORLD TRADING NATIONS, IN ABOLISHING RESTRICTIONS AND
IN EXPANDING WORLD TRADE
HE EMPHASISED THE SIZE OF US/JAPAN TRADE ON BOTH SIDES,
IN PARTICULAR THE EXTENT TO WHICH JAPANESE EXPORTS TO THE
US INCREASED IN 1968.
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HE SAID THAT THE US HAD BEEN PROGRESSIVE IN ITS TRADE
LIBERALISATION POLICIES
AND THAT JAPAN SHOULD COOPERATE
WITH THE US IN THE LIBERALISATION OF TRADE AND CAPITAL.
3. THE JAPANESE GOVT HAVE MADE CLEAR THEIR DETERMINATION
TO RESIST ALL PRESSURES FOR RESTRICTIONS UPON THEIR EXPORTS
OF TEXTILES TO THE US.
REPORTS STATE THAT THEY WILL ADOPT THREE ARGUMENTS TO SUPPORT
THIS POSITION (A) THAT SELF IMPOSED RESTRICTIONS ARE CONTRARY
TO THE SPIRIT OF THE GATT.
R.GISTRY No.51 14 MAY 1969
HICK6/204/1
150 XBX
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