Target practice: Japan, US resume their debate over car-part imports

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Trade negotiations between the US and Japan will start again in Hawaii on Sep 19, 1993, but little progress is expected. With trade in automobile parts as the focus, US officials will probably insist that numerical targets or benchmarks for Japanese purchases of American products are essential to reducing Japan's $10 billion trade surplus. Japanese officials, while perhaps willing to agree to strictly macroeconomic targets, will flatly reject specific import targets. Japan denies that it has already promised the US to increase purchases of American car parts.

Automobile equipment and supplies industry, Automotive parts industry, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration

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The good scout: Quayle as conciliator between US and Japan

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Vice-Pres Dan Quayle's initiatives to promote and improve US-Japan relations could identify him as an effective foreign policy motivator. Quayle is the most senior official to place the blame of Japan-bashing in the US on the revisionist depiction of Japanese business as singular, unbending and predatory. This view is discounted by revisionist writers, stating that Quayle is espousing a theory contrary to the administration's stand, as reflected by federal structural impediments initiatives negotiations with Japan.

Quayle, Dan

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A promise kept: Clinton presses Japan on trade, meets election pledge

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Pres Clinton carried out his campaign promise to emphasize economic issues in foreign affairs in his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa on Apr 16, 1993. Clinton particularly stressed the need for Japan to open its markets to US goods, although Miyazawa resisted Clinton's call for numerical quotas for the Japanese importation of US products. The meeting probably marked the start of a long struggle over US-Japanese trade and helped spur the Clinton administration to finalize its policy toward Japan.

Clinton, Bill, Political aspects, Miyazawa, Kiichi

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