World Panic since 1929 had accelerated the tendency of protectionism and world-wide trade conflicts. Japan had banned the gold export and stopped gold standard system in 1931. But it resulted in the depreciation of exchange rate of yen and promoted advance of Japanese exportation. Neverthless Japanese exportation to Canada was declined on the contrary in this period. It was pointed out that the decline of Japanese exportation to Canada caused to the Canadian unjust taxation to the Japanese imports.
In Japan, Trade Council was set up in 1933 as an advisory commitee to Foreign Minister and Trade Protection Law was enacted in 1934 which enabled the additional taxation of 50% as a reprisal against conflicting country with acknowledgement of Tariff Investigating Council, the advisory commitee to Finance Minister.
Accompanying to the uprising of criticism against Canadian tariff as unjust system and the delay of Canada-Japanese negotiation the drive to invoke the Trade Protection Law was accelerated in Japan and that was asserted at the Trade Council, too. And the Law was applied to Canada since July of 1935.
Japanese Government considered the application of Trade Protection Law to Canada is very effective as demonstration to other trade conflicting countries and they judged the chance of successis very high considering the internal effects inside Canada. Conservative Party was defeated at the general election hold in autumn as Japanese Government has expected. Mackenzie King Government of Canada took conciliatory attitude and negotiation with Japan was advanced. Thus Japanese Government cancelled the application of Trade Protection Law to Canada since Jan. 1st, 1936 in conformity of Letter of Exchange of Dec. 26, 1935. This article follows these processes mainly depending to the Archives of Japanese Foreign Ministroy.

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