international trade in manufactured goods. These include: 1. Indexes of export prices for the U.S., Germany, and Japan, based on … of domestic prices for the U. S., Germany, and Japan based on export weights; 3. Indexes for developed country exports of … exports of manufactures, and indexes for exports of the U.S., Germany, and Japan on the sane sets of weights. The indexes for …

This paper reviews the recent problems of the opening of Japan's rice market and evaluates the Japanese government … of Japan's rice market during the negotiations on agricultural trade at the GATT Uruguay Round. Eventually Japan's rice … of Japan's rice imports could be decreased if the Japanese government accepted the tariffication agreement. In retrospect …

Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …

model's firm-level predictions by using confidential microdata from Japan. We study the response of Japanese MNC parents and … in industries where inward FDI was encouraged, Japan MNC's affiliates in China experienced increases in their employment …

This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The … index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years … and 1994. Third, this cost index is negatively correlated with subjective indices of state environmental efforts compiled …