The sun., 1919-10-08
JAPANESE RIGID
ON EXPORT COTTON
Measures Taken to Protect
Foreign Market by System
of Inspection.

TOXIC, Oct. 1.-On August 10 the
Japanese Government announced regu-
lations providing for an inspection Of all
Japanese cotton manufactures intended
for export The system becomes opera
tive November /, 1919. The inspection
will be directed by associations of cot
ton manufacturers and where no such
associations exist by the prefectural
Governments.
By the provisions Of these regulations
the following cotton goods cannot be
exported for purposes of sale unless
they pass the inspection made by cot
ton manufa cturers' associations or by
prefectural Governments: Cotton crepes.
cotton prints, fiannelette, cotton, poplin.
drills and twilled shirtings, cotton koku-
raori, or weftribs, Chinese cotton ankle
bands. striped fabrics and cotton cloth
woven with dyed and bleached yarns.
With the exception OF Chinese cotton
ankle bands. only cotton goods which
are over forty-five inches wide, urder
eighteen inches wide and under twelve
yards In length are subject to inspection.
Instructions of the Department OF
Agriculture and Commerce provide that
cotton goods which have slight flaws,
stains or other minor defects and which
are permitted to be exported must have
the imperfections indicated on the same !;
and that cotton goods of the following
kinds cannot be passed for export: Cot
ton goods of unusually coarse texture.
of weak texture, not carefully woven,
of inferior dyeing, of inferior bleaching,
mercerization. &C.. of irregularity In
width. length and weight; containing
flaws and stains: of character which
inspectors shall Judge unit for export.
The pronunciation Of this system of in
spection OF cotton goods intended for
export Is the result OF conferences be-
tween the cotton goods manufacturers
and officials of the Department OF Agri-
culture and Commerce, the first of which
was held on February 81, 1919. 1t was
announced on that date that 1t had been
unanimously agreed that a stringent in
spection system was necessary to hold
the new export markets
II was several months before a deci-
sion was reached as to the supervision
Of inspection, whether ii should be a
function of the Department of Agricul-
ture and Commerce, or whether the
manufacturers should direct the inspec-
tion following regulations established by
the Government The original date for
the Inauguration OF the inspection sys-
TEN was named rs March I. but eubse-
quent announcements deferred the date.
Inc ueiay was que 10 q QinorenCo or
opinion as to the operation Of the plan.
The announcement In the official Ga
sette stated that the Federation of Cot
ton Goods Manufacturers Associations
was legally organized on July Z, 1919.
Thirty-two associations throughout ia
pan will direct the inspections OF cotton
goods exports
A day before the announcement of the
regulations the Minister OF Agriculture
and Commerce gave a statement to the
press calling attention to the conditions
which necessitated the establishment of
the inspection system. The statement
said that Japan's cotton exports had In
creased at a striking rate sincs the be-
ginning OF the war. Before the war the
average exports of cotton goods amount-
ed to a6,o00,o00 yen tabout $4,000, ,ooo)
annually; while last year the total
reached 23o.000,o90 yen (about s115,-
900. .000).
With this rapid expansion of the
trade IL has been discovered that Inferior
goods have been shipped. damaging the
reputation of japanese cotton goods gen.
orally. according to the statement.