VOL. XXXIV

NO. 2

15-OCTOBER-1990

General

Japan's MITI Reports on Pre-Gulf Crisis Imports from Kuwait and Iraq

Japan imported 220,000 b/d and 230,000 b/d of crude oil from Kuwait and Iraqrespectively during the first six months of 1990, according to a report recentlyreleased by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). Thesetotals each amounted to 6% of Japan's daily total crude imports of 3.8mn b/d thereport said. Between them, Iraq and Kuwait supplied about 12% of Japan's total...