’U.N. sanctions evaded’
GV. Z. P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, March 31. _ A Foreign Ministry official has said in Tokyo that the Ministry is investigating charges by a United Nations committee that Japanese businessmen have for years evaded United Nations sanctions by importing Rhodesian goods which have been listed as South African exports.
The spokesman admitted there have been big discrepancies in the trade figures of South Africa and Japan involving shipments of chromtore. asbestos and tobacco. The United Nations Sanctions Committee alleged last year that Japanese business-
men had used forged certificates of origin for some of these exports w’hich it claimed came from Rhodesia and not South Africa.
According to Foreign Ministry figures, Japan imported 720,000 metric tons of chrome ore from South Africa in 1971. South African figures listed such exports to Japan as totalling 353,400 tons, or about half that amount, for the same year. Japan’s listed imports of 455,000 metric tons of chrome ore from South Africa in 1972 compared with only 253,000 metric tons in South Africa’s statistics.
Sanctions were imposed against Rhodesia by the United Nations soon after the country unilaterally declared independence from Britain in November, 1965.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33498, 1 April 1974, Page 13
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