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- From: gdburns@osc.edu (Greg Burns)
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.202556.585@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:25:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.085537.11269@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
- >President Clinton should send a formal request to Japan, demanding that
- >formal and/or informal barriers to trade be removed. No more $24,000
- >Pontiac Grand Ams in Japan. If they don't comply within 30 days, there
- >will be
- >an across-the-board 10% additional tariff that will slapped on all Japanese
- >imports for _each_ month that there is no compliance.
-
- Does this mean that the Japanese get compensation for all the years that
- Detroit automakers tried to sell them cars with steering wheels on the wrong
- side of the car, license plate holders that didn't fit, etc? (The Japanese have
- their steering wheels on the right hand side of the car? The Europeans achieved
- much better penetration of the Japanese market by actually listening to the
- Japanese customer.
-
- Geoff McInnes, C.A.
-