America S Trade Policy Towards Japan

Author : John Kunkel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134427956

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America's Trade Policy Towards Japan by John Kunkel Pdf

In a few years, the United States has gone from worrying about Japan's economic might to worrying about its meltdown. The rise and fall of America's 'results-oriented' trade policy towards Japan captures this turnaround. John Kunkel traces this Japan policy to a crisis in the institutions, laws and norms of the US trade policy regime in the first half of the 1980s. This arose from the erosion of America's post-war international economic dominance (especially vis-à-vis Japan) and the unintended consequences of Reaganomics. The crisis in turn led to the progressive ascendancy of a coalition of 'hardliners' over 'free traders' after 1985. Kunkel combines research in economics, politics and history - including interviews with key policy-makers - to illuminate this important case study of American trade policy. His book offers theoretical insights and practical lessons on the forces shaping US trade policy at the start of the twenty-first century.

Author : Mireya Solis
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815729204

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Dilemmas of a Trading Nation by Mireya Solis Pdf

The balancing of competing interests and goals will have momentous consequences for Japan—and the United States—in their quest for economic growth, social harmony, and international clout. Japan and the United States face difficult choices in charting their paths ahead as trading nations. Tokyo has long aimed for greater decisiveness, which would allow it to move away from a fragmented policymaking system favoring the status quo in order to enable meaningful internal reforms and acquire a larger voice in trade negotiations. And Washington confronts an uphill battle in rebuilding a fraying domestic consensus in favor of internationalism essential to sustain its leadership role as a champion of free trade. In Dilemmas of a Trading Nation, Mireya Solís describes how accomplishing these tasks will require the skillful navigation of vexing tradeoffs that emerge from pursuing desirable, but to some extent contradictory goals: economic competitiveness, social legitimacy, and political viability. Trade policy has catapulted front and center to the national conversations taking place in each country about their desired future direction—economic renewal, a relaunched social compact, and projected international influence. Dilemmas of a Trading Nation underscores the global consequences of these defining trade dilemmas for Japan and the United States: decisiveness, reform, internationalism. At stake is the ability of these leading economies to upgrade international economic rules and create incentives for emerging economies to converge toward these higher standards. At play is the reaffirmation of a rules-based international order that has been a source of postwar stability, the deepening of a bilateral alliance at the core of America's diplomacy in Asia, and the ability to reassure friends and rivals of the staying power of the United States. In the execution of trade policy today, we are witnessing an international leadership test dominated by domestic governance dilemmas.

Author : Stephen D. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4386462

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Uneasy Partnership by Stephen D. Cohen Pdf

Author : Stephen D. Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313389085

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An Ocean Apart by Stephen D. Cohen Pdf

Closing a critical gap in the literature examining the strained relationship between the U.S. and Japan, this book synthesizes the economic, political, historical, and cultural factors that have led these two nations, both practitioners of capitalism, along quite different paths in search of different goals. Taking an objective, multidisciplinary approach, the author argues that there is no single explanation for Japan's domestic economic or foreign trade successes. Rather, his analysis points to a systemic mismatch that has been misdiagnosed and treated with inadequate corrective measures. This systemic mismatch in the corporate strategy, economic policies, and attitudes of the U.S. and Japan created and is perpetuating three decades of bilateral economic frictions and disequilibria. As long as both the U.S. and Japan deal more with symptoms than causes, bilateral problems will persist. This book's unique analysis will encourage a better understanding on both sides of the Pacific of what has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen if corporate executives and policymakers in the two countries do not better realize the extent of their differences and adopt better corrective measures.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000018476668

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Oversight of U.S. Trade Policy with Japan by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management Pdf

Author : Leonard James Schoppa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231105916

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Bargaining with Japan by Leonard James Schoppa Pdf

Schoppa documents how U.S. pressure has been misapplied in the past, insisting on the need for a strategy more informed about internal Japanese politics. While a strategy reliant on brute force is liable to backfire, he argues, one which works with domestic politics in Japan can succeed.

Author : Thomas Hout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Japan
ISBN : IND:30000138498641

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Japan's Trade Policy and U.S. Trade Performance by Thomas Hout Pdf

Author : Robert M. Uriu
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191571183

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Clinton and Japan by Robert M. Uriu Pdf

This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration. In the context of growing fear over Japan's increasing economic strength, revisionists argued that Japan represented a distinctive form of capitalism that was inherently closed to imports and that posed a threat to U.S. high-tech industries. Revisionists advocated a "managed trade" solution in which the Japanese government would be forced to set aside a share of the market for foreign goods. The author describes the role that various American academics, government officials, and business leaders played in developing revisionist thought. Revisionism was at its peak just as the Clinton administration came into office. The author uses extensive interviews with policy makers to trace the internal discussions inside the Clinton White House, which culminated in the adoption of revisionist policy and then to demands for "results-oriented" trade agreements during the Framework negotiations. This book details how Japan refused to accept these managed trade solutions, and fought to discredit revisionism and to rally global support against American unilateralism.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Japan
ISBN : PURD:32754077525123

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United States-Japan Trade Relations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade Pdf

Author : Aurelia George Mulgan,Masayoshi Honma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137414564

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The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy by Aurelia George Mulgan,Masayoshi Honma Pdf

This study provides up-to-date coverage of the most important domestic and external political and economic influences on Japanese trade policy, as well as the evolutionary dynamics of that policy in the post-war period.

Author : William H. Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCBK:C003095942

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Japan-U.S. Trade by William H. Cooper Pdf

Author : United Nations Association of the United States of America. Economic Policy Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35128000895050

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U.S. Trade and Economic Relations with Japan and Mexico by United Nations Association of the United States of America. Economic Policy Council Pdf

Author : Robert S Walters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000313871

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Talking Trade by Robert S Walters Pdf

Challenges from Japan, opportunities in the new European Community, and prospects for developing countries’ economies all revolve around trade and all have implications for U.S. economic strengths and interests. The cases in this book have been selected to illustrate a variety of contemporary trade policies, practices, and partners. The volume begins with an overview of the multilateral trade regime embodied in the GATT; it then moves on to specifics, including two different cases of U.S.-Japanese exchanges (goods versus services), trade strategies of Brazil as a newly industrializing country, and the EC as the world’s largest trader. Throughout the cases, larger themes are traced, connecting trade with economic policy, foreign policy with domestic politics, and change in U.S. economic strength with the rise of new economic powers in the world arena.

Author : Stephen D. Krasner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877255326

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Asymmetries in Japanese-American Trade by Stephen D. Krasner Pdf

Author : Anne O. Krueger
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012007055

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American Trade Policy by Anne O. Krueger Pdf

In this monograph Anne O. Krueger demonstrates the increasing reliance on bilateral and regional trading arrangements and shows the dangers of departures from multilateralism. Using examples from trading relationships with individual countries (especially Japan and Korea), she shows how the presence of third countries not covered by agreements, market forces, and unanticipated technological and economic events undermine the intended effects of many bilateral arrangements. Ms. Krueger analyzes the North American Free Trade Agreement, and its prospective enlargement to a Western Hemisphere free trade agreement, in light of its impact on the multilateral trading system. While such arrangements can be "GATT plus", they can also be GATT substitutes. The author outlines the ways in which the presence of regional arrangements can detract from the open multilateral trading system, especially at a time when the new World Trade Organization should be the focal point of energy and attention. Ms. Krueger concludes by summarizing the failures of bilateral approaches to achieving their objectives and calling for a renewed commitment to the open multilateral trading system.