A new deregulation package from the Japanese government

Date: 04/04/1996

met with the cautious approval of Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan. Having offered to scrap many of the rules on trading goods and services making life difficult for foreign firms, in November last year, this week Tokyo extended the package. “What has now been announced is a further step in the right direction and it is crucially important for that to be translated rapidly into specific action,” said Brittan.