This market is already under severe pressure from imports of leather products. Our raw cotton exports to Japan have registered a conspicous decline as Japans purchases of Mexican cotton displaced American cotton from its earlier primacy. Japans cotton purchases from the United States in 1969 dropped by 440.000 bales. American corn farmers continue to be penalized by the tariff quota system and the new surtax with which Japan limits imports of starchmaking corn in order to protect Japanese products of potato starch. The basic tariff rate is 10 percent. but the surtax imposed on overquota imports has been raised from 40 percent to nearly 80 percent. Separately.
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