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- JAPAN IMPORT PROMOTION MEASURES
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- In January 1990, the Japanese Government announced a
- comprehensive three-year plan to increase Japanese imports.
- The import promotion package includes tax incentives for
- Japanese importers, elimination of tariffs on approximately
- 1,004 manufactured products, low-interest loans for import
- promotion activities and foreign direct investment in
- Japan, and a $100 million grassroots import promotion
- program.
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- Japanese manufacturers who increase their duty-free
- manufactured imports of capital, intermediate, and durable
- goods in Standard Industrial Trade Classification sections
- 5-8 by a minimum of 10 percent will be eligible for a 5
- percent tax credit of the value of the increase in imports.
- Alternately, manufacturers may choose a maximum of 20
- percent accelerated depreciation for imported machinery.
- The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry
- estimates that the incentives will increase manufactured
- imports by $3 billion in the Japanese fiscal year 1990.
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- A number of Japanese financial institutions have expanded
- eligibility to foreign companies and increased low-interest
- loan quotas for import promotion activities. Qualifying
- U.S. firms are eligible for manufactured export financing
- by the Export-Import Bank of Japan. Also, the Japan
- Development Bank will offer low-interest loans for foreign
- direct investment in Japan by foreign investors.
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- The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) intends to
- increase the number of trade and foreign buyer missions
- traveling to and from Japan. Many trade mission
- participants will be recruited by local JETRO offices. In
- addition, Japanese export consultants have been sent by
- JETRO to the United States for two years to conduct
- seminars on exporting to Japan and provide individual
- business counseling.
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