. The ultimate success of the negotiations largely depends on the attitudes of the USA, the EC and Japan. What are the main …

of the EC, the USA and Japan in international trade? How dependent are these three economic powers on the world market …The growing importance of Japan on the world market has brought with it changes in the international division of labour … and a shift in the focus of the expansion in world trade away from the EC and the USA. What factors determine the shares …

Japan is currently still characterized by a low degree of import integration in the field of finished products. What …

friction between the US, on the one hand, and the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan, on the other. Against this background … on to point out, in terms of this general analysis, what the US is doing and what Germany and Japan would like it to do. …