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US Asks Japan Team to Widen Quotas as It Did for Canada
By RICHARD C. SIZEMORE
WASHINGTON.-United States officials Thursday cited an agreement Japan signed with Canada limiting ex- ports of wool and man-made fiber textiles and asked a five- man Japanese delegation for a similar pact.
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The Japanese delegation, which insists on labeling the meeting a fact-finding session, gave no response to the pro- posal, sources said.
They characterized the day-long session, the third held so far, as "a good meeting," but said the sessions were still "difficult."
The Japanese asked questions, some detailed, some general, about the United States claim that imports were injuring domestic textile industry.
The United States delegation focused some attention
on market disruption and main- tained! that imports of wool and man-made
textiles pre-
sented a clear-cut case of market disruption under the procedures of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade.
• They noted that the contract parties of GATT had agreed to, what constituted market disrup- tion prior to diespiesenl term cotton" textile" arrange- ment.
4* The United States“ délegation-- "quoted this "part of the Voluntary, z agreement Japan has #h"Can- ̧„ "ada for liming exports of wool"
and synthetic Textiles.
"These voluntary restraints are Tinitiated) by the Japanese Gov-. ernment of its own accord to conform with its established policy of effecting gradual in- creases of Jenanere exports on an orderly basis with a view to avoiding undue injury to the domestic industries of import. countries."
The United States delegation wanted to know if this was "Jap- anese policy and if it could sign an agreement of this type with Canada, why not with the United Stafes?
Earlier a Japanese spokesman said the Japaneze delegation saw no relation to its exports to the United States and the explana- tion of injury to the domestic tex- tile industry by the United States delegation
"We don't think imports have caused a very substantial injury „“as"the_United States insiŝts,” e
spokesman said.
In a related development, Com- merce Secretary. Maurice Stans in a speech, Thursday night in San Francisco referred to textile imports, "principally across the Pacifie," without mentioning Ja- pan specifically.
Stans said imports in sonte cases were doubling this year over last "as low-wage producer countries take 'grecdy" advantage of the fact that the United States is the only unrestricted market in the world for these products."
The discussions wind up today at the State Department follow- ing a lunch there. The United States will then wait until the Japanese delegation reports to its Government and the Japanese Government replies to its pro posals.
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2 OCT 1969
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