Washington, Jan. 24.
United States yesterday flatly rejected Japanese overtures for the negotiation of a new trade pact to replace the abrogated Japanese-American trade agreement of 1911 which expires on Friday. The expiring treaty was abrogated by the United States last July 26 in retaliation for Japanese violations of American rights and interests and assaults on American nationals in the Far East.
State Department officials yesterday made it plain to Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese Ambassador in Washington, that the United States would not negotiate a temporary agreement to replace the expiring trade pact, The Japanese Ambassador was told that there would be no changes in tariff or other matters regulated under the treaty, as was anticipated, but he was advised that the whole future of Japanese-American trade relations depends on future developments in the Far East.
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