Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1934, The Far East, Volume III

611.946/97

The Department of State to the Japanese Embassy⁹⁹

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An investigation is being made by appropriate agencies of the American Government of imports into the United States of china and porcelain ware, and endeavor will be made, during the course of the investigation, to ascertain the effects upon imports into the United States of the measures which the General China and Porcelain Ware Exporters’ Association in Japan is understood to have taken.

The American Government will be glad, if any measure to restrict imports of china and porcelain ware should be considered necessary, to enter into informal discussions with the Japanese Government before such measures are put into effect.

99. Handed to the Japanese Chargé by Mr. Eugene H. Dooman of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, July 16, 1934.