Japan may not impose emergency curbs on towel products from China and Vietnam, due to a slowdown in imports, government officials said Friday.
Recent trade data make it difficult for the government to prove a surge in imports, a prerequisite to restrict imports under the "safeguard" mechanism of the World Trade Organization, the officials said.
It is the same mechanism used by the U.S. earlier in the week to impose steel tariffs.
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