I hereby promulgate the Law concerning the Exemption of Import Duties on Foodstuffs. Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This sixteenth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (December 16, 1947) Prime Minister KATAYAMA Tetsu Law No.188 The import duties of those articles which are stated in the list of import tariff in the Annexed Table to the Custom Duties Fixed Tarif Law and which are stated in the Annexed Table to the present Law shall be exempted on importations until December 31, 1948. Supplementary Provision: The present Law shall come into force as from January 1, 1948. Annexed Table Import Tariff Articles Nos. 12 Rice and paddy 13 Barley 16 Wheat EX.17-(2) Millet (Setaria italica or Setaria italica Var. germanica) 18 Kao-liang 19 Indian corn 20 Buck wheat 21 Beans and pease 1.Soja beans 2.Red or white beans, small 3.Beans (Vicia faba) 5.Pease (Pisum Sativum) 7.Other, excluding those for medicinal use 22 Flours, meals or groats of grains and starches. 31 Vegetables, fruits and nuts 32 Tea 34 Coffee 36 Cocoa (not sugared) 37 Pepper 38 Curry 39 Mustard 40 Sugar 41 Rock candy sugar, cube sugar, loaf sugar and similar sugar 42 Molasses 43 Grape sugar, malt sugar and "Ame" 44 Honey 45 Confectioneries and cakes 46 Jams, fruit jellies and the like 47 Biscuits (not sugared) 48 Macaroni, vermicelli and the like 49 Fruit-juices and syrups 50 Sauces 51 Vinegar 52 Meats, poultry and game 52-(2) Fish, shellfish and mollusca 53 Butter, artificial butter and ghee 54 Cheese 55 Condensed milk 56 Infantfoods 57 Meat extract 58 Peptone, somatose, hemoglobin and similar tonic foods 59 Eggs, fresh 59-(2) Eggs in liquid and eggs in powder 60 Mineral waters, soda water and similar beverages, not containing sugar or alcohol 67 Beverages and comestibles, not otherwise provided for 101 Soja bean oil 102 Cotton seed oil 108 Animal fats 109 Compound lard 120 Edible oils, fats and waxes in oils, fats and waxes, not otherwise provided for 166 Bicarbonate of soda 218 Baking powder Minister of Finance KURUSU Takeo Prime Minister KATAYAMA Tetsu