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Japanese Are Major
Customer U.S. Goods
Virginia residents are well aware that U. S.-Japanese trade is extensive, James S. Gillespie, Chairman of the Virginia State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC) Committee, commented recently. “Almost everyone recognizes that Americans are important customers for Japanese goods. I wondet how many of us realize that the Japanese are major customers for American goods, especially for American farm commodities.
“In fact, Japan imports more U. S. agricultural products than any other country In the world-a record $1.1 billion worth during the 1970 fiscal year,” Mr. Gillespie said.
He pointed out that feed grains, soybeans, wheat, cotton, and tobacco are important farm crops in Virginia and that exports of these farm products to Japan have gone up dramatically in recent years.
More than six million tons of feed grains were shipped to Japan last fiscal year-just about one-third of U. S. feed grain exports. Soybean exports to Japan had a 251 million dollar value, and wheat exports $136 million. Japan Is our best cotton customer, taking one-fourth of its cotton from the U. S. and Japan bought $50 million worth of tobacco from the U. S. during the last fiscal year.
The ASC committee chairman reported that Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin recently took note of the American-Japanese trade story, cpUlnp H unprecedented. /
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