BALKANS TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)

BALKANS TRADE

) JAPANESE CAMPAIGN. COMPETING WITH BRITAIN. London, March 9. A special correspondent of the News Chronicle reports that the Japanese are making a big drive •' capture trade in the Balkans. He says Japanese interests recently opened an office at Agram, in Yugoslavia, while Japanese ships have visited Balkan ports with large collections of industrial samples and, in some cases, with stock for sale. An entire shipload of Japanese merchandise was offered at Constanza, Rumania, at half the price charged for similar goods by British and German suppliers. The correspondent adds that negotiations have already started for exchanging Rumanian oil for Japanese merchandise. Japan is also prepared to take quantities of Balkan grain, tobacco and salt on condition that the supplying country grants corresponding import quotas.