Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anticipation of Nakasone's visit to the U.S., his government also unveiled a package of trade-liberalizing measures, the third in 13 months. It included tariff cuts on such items as tobacco products, chocolate and biscuits. The measures will do little to shrink Japan's huge (estimated $17.5 billion for 1982) trade surplus with the U.S., but Nakasone has promised a review of such nontariff barriers as complex customs requirements and byzantine distribution systems...
...trade: It is important to solve the problems of trade one by one. Since last May, Japan has reduced tariffs substantially, or abolished or otherwise liberalized imports on some 300 items. We have recently taken more urgent action-though you might say somewhat belatedly, somewhat tardily-on tariffs on tobacco products, chocolate and other items. We shall continue to make these efforts to solve individual problems...
...fact that there "is realistically no chance that Philip Morris will abandon the production and sale of tobacco products...
...backed only by extremists and that it could foreclose University leverage on the company in question. In this case, it would do well to listen to ACSR alumni member Herbert P. Gleason '50. Gleason, no extremist, recently said that there is "no possible justification for making money out of tobacco." The Corporation should also realize that its chances of persuading Morris to abandon cigarette production are about as slim as the chances that its cigarettes will be found to be good for the lungs. Unless either of those unlikely scenarios develops, we think it's best that the managers...
...copper price plunged from 950 per Ib. to 690. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere put it plainly: to buy a seven-ton truck in 1981, his country had to produce four times as much cotton, or three times as much coffee, or ten tunes as much tobacco, as it took to purchase the same vehicle five years earlier...