Foreign companies are complaining that they are prevented from exporting to Japan by all kinds of official or unwritten impediments. Among these impediments, which are the implications in terms of using PPP to forecast the yen exchange rate?
A.
Import quota ( e.g., on rice ).
B.
Numerous regulations preventing foreign service firms from accessing the Japanese market.
C.
Red tape on imports, introducing long delays and uncertainties about the final delivery costs.
D.
Poor quality image of foreign goods.
E.
In public contracts, goods submitted must be of a very particular specification that corresponds exactly to some existing Japanese goods, but would require costly adjustments for existing foreign-produced goods.