The success has more than made up for the failure of another division, producing garden furniture, wiped out by cheaper imports.

The spending is intended to moderate the growth of Japan's trade surplus by increasing imports.

'People will say we are not helping locals by signing imports,' said Anderson.

The company faced problems in the late 1980s, mainly due to competition by used imports.

But the thread company, its business battered by imports, announced in 1984 that it was closing the plant.

New entries to the labor force are falling and most workers displaced by imports have found other jobs.

Compared with November 2010, exports rose by 8.3% and imports by 6.7%.

They argue that his trade policy will not play as well here, where unemployment is low and workers are less likely to feel threatened by imports.

Exports until December 2011 reached € 319 million, dominated by significantly larger imports of € 2.49 billion.

By judicious imports, he did much to improve Australian livestock.