World: British Inflation Lowest of Thatcher's Regime
BritainÛªs annual inflation rate fell to 9.4 percent in April, down 1 percentage point from March and the lowest since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took office three years ago, the government said yesterday.</br></br>Government officials boasted that the annual inflation rate is at its lowest level since January 1979 and back in single figures for the first time since March 1979.</br></br>Japanese government has decided to liberalize quotas on nine farm and fisheries products and cut tariffs on 40 others as part of a general trade package to open JapanÛªs markets to foreign goods, a mass-circulation daily said yesterday.</br></br>The Tokyo Shimbun, quoting government sources, said Japan will tell the United States in talks in Washington on Monday and Tuesday that it is willing to expand import quotas on peanuts, kidney beans, peas, tomato ketch-</br></br>Officials in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry denied that any final decisions had been reached on JapanÛªs farm product policy, but said related ministries were coordinating ideas for the Washington meeting.