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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “In the agreement with Japan, the United States corrected an error consisting of the omission of a part of a concession…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 1963
In the agreement with Japan, the United States corrected an error consisting of the omission of a part of a concession it had agreed to grant Japan in the 1960-61 tariff conference but which it had inadvertently failed to include in either the relevant preliminary agreements with Japan or the United States schedule to the tariff conference protocol.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Trade Agreements With the United Kingdom and Japan

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