Manila, Oct. 28.
American businessmen today expressed concern over the recent heavy increase in the imports of cheap textiles from Shanghai and Hongkong classified as Chinese goods and thus not covered by quotas contained in the United States-Japanese "gentlemen's agreement" dividing the Philippine market.
They said the American textile business in the Philippines was already beginning to suffer. They indicated they planned to request United States officials to determine whether Japanese manufactured textiles from China were covered by the "gentlemen's agreement."
Last year Washington called Tokyo's attention to considerable textiles made in Japan and then shipped to Hongkong and Singapore, from where they were trans-shipped to Manila in order to evade the quotas of the State Department. The Japanese Government immediately took satisfactory steps to curb this practice they recalled.—United Press, Canadian Representative Arrives in London
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