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U.S.-Japanese Trade Strategies

With P. Kollmer. Originally published in The Japan Times, May 13, 1985. Used with permission of Michael R. Czinkota and The Japan Times.

Now that the public outcry over U.S.-Japanese trade relations has quieted down temporarily, it is worthwhile to take a calm and detached look at the bilateral relationship and consider reorienting our approach to solving trade problems between our nations.

The focus of the United States on the size of the bilateral deficit as a measure of Japanese good faith in market opening has made the threat of trade retaliation against Japan, Washington’s most predictable annual international ...

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