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Japan at War With Us Economically Over Cheap Cotton
A 1935 analysis warns that Japan dominates in textile exports to the United States through low wages and long shifts, threatening American mills. It cites Mitsui and Ishida testimony, tariff limits, and the impact on towns like Turner Maine and New Bedford Massachusetts while urging protective tariffs and awareness of Asia's industrial strategy.
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Japan
United States
Rishida
Mitsui & Company
Federal Tariff Commission
Eliot Wadsworth
Far East
Araki
Asia
Shingo Tsuda
Kanegafuchi Spinning Company
Boston Evening Transcript
Tokyo
New York Sun
China
Ishida
Sun
America
The
Sun Dispatch
United
Europe
Turner
Maine
Ame
New Hampshire
Butler
New Bedford
Massachusetts
India
Brazil