The Archive · 1938

FRANCO-JAPANESE TRADE PACT SIGNED

Supplementary to Agreement Reached in 1911

Paris, Feb. 19.

A new trade agreement, supplementing the one signed in 1911, was signed to-day by M. Yotaro Sugimura, Japanese Ambassador here, on behalf of Japan, and by M. Alexis Leger, General-Secretary of the Quai d'Orsay.

The new agreement provides for France's acceptance of a renewal as from January 1, 1938, of the quotas for Japanese packed salmon and porcelain, while France reserves the right to request the opening of negotiations in the everft of a decrease in some French exports to Japan and if French importers are unable normally to send home the proceeds of their sales owing to the Japanese on exchange control. The agreement has been signed for a period of one year—Havas,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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