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US footwear industry bodies urge Trump to end Japanese footwear TRQs

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Three US footwear industry bodies have urged President Donald Trump to eliminate the tariff-rate quota restricting exports of US-made and US-branded leather footwear to Japan as part of any final US-Japan Agreement on Reciprocal Trade.
Japan has refused to remove this barrier for long.
The CPTPP has aggravated this problem for US footwear manufacturers in the last few years.Three US footwear industry bodies have urged President Donald Trump to eliminate the tariff-rate quota restricting exports of US-made and US-branded leather footwear to Japan as part of any final US-Japan Agreement on Reciprocal Trade.
Japan has refused to remove this barrier for long.
The CPTPP has aggravated this problem for US footwear manufacturers in the last few years.