Restrictions on Importation of Tobacco by Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea

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To the Editor: Under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, the government of the United States has recently charged Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea with unfairly restricting importation of U.S. cigarettes and has threatened retaliatory trade sanctions if the restrictions are not removed.1 If these efforts are successful, smoking and smoking-related deaths and disabilities will increase. The three countries have, or recently had, state-owned tobacco monopolies protected from foreign imports by tariffs and, in the case of South Korea,2 by a law prohibiting possession of foreign cigarettes. In the absence of competition, the state companies generally produce a less . . .

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