Possible Japan cap on towel imports faces opposition

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Towel producers, importers, retailers and wholesalers seem to be split on the issue of placing a cap on towel imports as the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry studies the towel industry's request to impose new trade curbs, especially on China. Japan's towel industry grew 7.3 percent to 35,456 metric tons in the first half of this year. In 2000, imports grew 16 percent to 58,478 tons, and domestic output dropped 13 percent to 49,531 tons. The article details the industry.

Production data, Broadwoven Fabric Mills, Broadwoven fabric mills, cotton, Cotton Toweling, Statistical Data Included, Brief Article, Statistics, Textile industry, Cotton fabrics, Toweling

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Global food chain's last link: eels and urchins

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Off the coast of Maine, fishermen harvest sea urchins for the Japanese market. During the 1980s the demand for sea urchins from Maine grew because the fish was overharvested in Japanese waters. The Japanese paid premium prices for sea urchins during the early 1990s, but now they can no longer afford to import the delicacy and the waters around Maine have been overharvested as well.

Maine, Exports, FISHING, HUNTING, AND TRAPPING, Other Sea Creatures, Other Marine Fishing, International trade, Sea urchins, Marine animals

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Prologis to construct Japanese distribution site for DHL

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U.S.-based ProLogis Trust, a logistics and warehouse owner company, signed a lease of twenty years with DHL Japan Inc., one of DHL Interantional Ltd.'s units. ProLogis will develop a five-story plant in Shinkiba that will serve as DHL's East Japan hub for operations. Construction is to begin in early fall, and to be completed in a year.

Use of services, Belgium, Freight Transportation Arrangement, Freight Forwarders & Consolidators, Real estate investment trusts, Real Estate Invest Trusts, Freight transportation industry, Contracts, Freight forwarders, DHL International Ltd., Prologis Trust, DHL Japan Inc.

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