Another enterprise that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry plans to push vigorously is the collection of old wool for re-manufacture. Tt is estimated that throughout Japan there isa large "reserve" of worn-out wool, (caps, socks and stockings and various: other items of garments and wearing apparel. The plan is to establish Comprehensive System by which these old woollen broods can be brought out the corners and storerooms of the.
Fresh goods. Tt is fully realized, loth 0 produced will be shoddy short-lived, but this again, is an em~ fervency measure. Efforts were made en specified "collection days during the fatter half of last year to get some for this material back into circulation, Jand surprisingly large quantities were Obtained. Appeals were made in radio" broadensis tothe " people's patriotism, admonishing then not to hoard this commodity in anticipation of better prices for it later on.
In order to carry out {ts plans for the wool industry. the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has decided (0 reorganize the Wool Import Control Association, the Wool. Industry Association, the Wool Export Control Association, and various other guilds and organizations connected with the industry. The method of applying the ow intensified control to the. yarn and knit-goods branches of the industry has not yer been decided. [Steps somewhat similar {0 those 10 be applied to the textile branch, however, are most likely to be adopted."
For the purpose of collecting the Jott wool, the Ministry had decided organize what will be called the Japan. Reclaimed Wool Textile Commerical Guild. "A Coarse Woolen "Yarn In~_ dustry, Guild will also be established.
planned to supply large Jquantities of the reclaimed woof yarn othe mills manufacturing uniforms, blankets, and other clothing equip-iment for the army and navy. The fio services have so far declined to permit the use of staple fibre im weaving cloth for uniforms, for obvious reasons.
'Hand in hand with the new system controlling the woollen manufacturing industry, it is a certainty that the Emport of wool will be even more severely restricted than it was last Jsear, The value of Japan's wool imports in' 1098 came. to ¥.04,426,000 which represented a decline of no less than ¥.208.978,000 as compared with the imports during 1937, according to the Ministry of Finance's figures, The 1937 imports. were valued at ¥.200, 403.000 "the 1836 imports at ¥.200,~ 398,000 and the 1995 Imports at ¥.181 000.
382,000 "bales, from "all sources "in As. to, quantities Japan_ imported
1938: 868.00" balen_ in 100%: 10.00 bales, 1996; and 610,000 bales in 1808. Or "these, 1035 ox. the lat normal year, as the AustaliatJapan trade" war covered the. last halt 1986, the. China war started "inthe Middle o¢ 1997, and 1988 wax marked rigid releenchments. The record port of 1697 wax, of course, due largely. to military requirements, A Strprising feature of 1988 was the ime ort practically all from Britain, of Y2fako00 worth of woollen extol despite severe, Import restrictions 2 ihe feet that Japan now makes quite ood woollen textiles hers imports of. raw wool "from the various countries during the Fast (we 2 0 473 000 253.00
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