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This chapter deals with institutional import-limiting factors in Japan. Under the present international arrangements, most trade policies are required to be applied equally to both developed and developing countries. Strictly speaking therefore, as in the case of the import promotion policies discussed in Chapter 3, there is no import-limiting policy designed specifically for developing countries. This fact also determines the approach taken in this chapter. Policies which specifically affect developing countries, either positively or negatively, are relatively few and these will be discussed in Chapter 5.
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Y. Arikawa, Agricultural Imports — A Novel (in Japanese), Kodansha, 1987.
For a detailed discussion of Japan’s distribution sector, see Maruyama (1989 and 1990), the MITI report, Tsusho Sangyo Chosakai, The Vision for Distribution Industry in the 1990s (1990, Tokyo) (in Japanese), and
Motoshige Ito and Akihiko Matsui, ‘Japanese Way of Transactions’ (in Japanese)’, in Motoshige Ito and Kazuo Nishimura, Applied Microeconomics (University of Tokyo Press, 1989).
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Hirata, A., Kohama, H., Urata, S., Yokota, K. (1993). Japan’s Import Barriers — Agriculture and Distribution. In: Yamazawa, I., Hirata, A. (eds) Trade Policies towards Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22982-6_4
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