realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … a percentage point of GDP. Taken together, these results indicate that a realignment of global growth -- with Japan and …

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 …

By 1981, Japan achieved both internal and external equilibrium; exports and imports roughly balanced at sixteen percent …

The bilateral relationship with Japan now dominates American thinking on the benefits and costs of foreign trade. This … paper reevaluates the past and future course of U.S.-Japan economic relations. It identifies six distinct aspects of the … relationship that may underlie the continuing friction: bilateral imbalance on merchandise trade, capital flows from Japan to the …

fiscal surpluses in the US, the annual announcement of yet another fiscal stimulus package in Japan, and Maastricht limits on …