Commission officials have welcomed the Japanese government’s plans

Date: 19/11/1998

to boost the country's economy with a 165-billion-ecu package of tax cuts and public spending. But officials said that Toyko should have done to tackle structural reforms and remove bureaucratic barriers to trdae. The Japanese package includes 130-billion-ecu in new public spending plans and 1.5-billion-ecu worth of income and corporate tax cuts.