Tokyo, May The Tokyo Foreign Office is reported {0 have received—oficial reports from the Japanese authorlties in' Paris that the French Government, on May 3, published a decree banning imports Into France—and the French colonies of Japanese cods, with the exception of raw silk and camphor, without certificates, origin isled by French" consuls and the French Commercial Attache in Japan. These reported rest. ons, it is stated, would become effective on May 10.
Commercial and trade circles hold that they are not pessimistic over fulure Franco-Japanese trade relations. They believe that the Government authorities will redouble efforts for readjustment of Franco-Japanese trade relations, through the trade parleys now under Way' between France and Japan. Japanese traders believe that the new' French "meos sures will affect but little Japan's exports to France.
Japan's total exports to Franc 1938 amounted to. ¥.36813,675, imports: from France to. ¥.13,802,459, Among Japanese exports, raw silk and camphor constituted the two Diggest items, "the "former beirut valued at ¥.24.630.853 and the latter Jat ¥.251.578.—Reuter:
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