Japs At Their Tricks Again

IT' is reported in Australian newspapers that Japanese exporters are back at their old pre-war game of giving trick trade marks to small manufactures.

Example is “Made in USA” for products made in the small town of Usa, in Kyushu.

It will be remembered that before the war, thousands of small products, such as valve springs for automobile tyres, were so branded. Packaging was an exact copy of American goods—and so was the trick trademark, at a cursory glance.

The Japanese Trade Ministry recently stated that it will create a permit control for export goods that “might violate foreign industrial trademarks.”