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THE JAPANESE POLICY SUBSTITUTES FOR IMPORTS YOKOHAMA, Sept. 19. An important meeting of members of the Ministries of Commerce and Industry, Agriculture, Forestry, Communications, and Army and Navy, scientists, members of the Fisheries Institute, and industrialists decided, first, vigorously to foster a policy to substitute cheaper, and as far as possible domestically produced, materials for leading imports, viz., staple fibre for wool and cotton and shark and water buffalo and other aquatic skins for hides, aluminium for copper, and reworked rubber for fresh rubber, also as regards oils and fertilisers. Secondly, to lighten or exempt from taxation such substitutes. Thirdly, to intensify research methods and extend substitution, for which the Ministry of Commerce and Industry will supply funds. And fourthly, when necessary, establish semi-official corporations for the manufacture ot substitutes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23302, 21 September 1937, Page 9
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