Not to Impose Quotas on Commonwealth Imports Tokyo, May 16.
Complete understanding regarding measures to increase trade between Japan and Australia is said to have been reached in a two-hour interview information officer, and Mr. Saburo between Mr. A. C. Moore, Australian)
Kurusu, chief of the Bureau of Commerce of the Foreign Office. Mr. Moore is 2 member of the Australian Eastern Mission headed by Mr. John IG. Latham Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, who is on a visit here.
Japan, Mr. Kurusu was reported to have assured Mr. Moore, will not Impose quotas on Australian imports jas 'a means (9 balance the trade between his country and Australia. Instead, one will rely upon measures to" increase Japanese exports to the Commonwealth that can be enacted by means of bilateral agreements.
Mr. Kurusu later indi ted to improv newspapermen that Japan's" main hope for closer relations with Australia lay in the conclusion of a treaty of commerce and navigation }with the Commonwealth Government. This instrument would include a '"most-favoured-nation" clause. Commercial relations between Japan and Australia are at present governed by 8 trade convention signed in 1905.
Mr. K. Murai, Japanese Consul-General at Sydney, will be entrusted with the conclusion of this treaty, Mr. Kurusu said.
Other problems pending between Japan and Australia are the admis-Sion of Japanese to. the Commonwealth "and" the establishment direct radio communication between Tokyo and Sydney.—Rengo.
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