Japanese Traders Petition Government Tokyo, June 22.
The Japan Foreign Trade Council, consisting of five leading economic organizations, has filed a petition with Mr. Seihin Ikeda. as Commerce and Industry Minister, asking for al-deviation of Government restriction on the importation of 45 kinds of merchandise.
These include rubber, electrolytic-copper, stainless steel, leather la quer, photographic gelatine, celluloid, Chilean nitrate of soda, antimony, cobalt, quicksilver, cowhides, Java sugar, perfume, tin. coffee beans, cocoa beans, lead ingots, tin ingots, paraffin, vaseline, zinc, wire,- steel, wire rods, and printing ink.—Reuter.
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