S. 10-13: Ballon, Robert J.: A note about Japan's trade with the Communist Bloc …

Japan's high and increasing trade and current account surpluses have aroused in the other industrialized nations a … increasing imports from Japan. Japan's "unfair" conduct of its foreign trade is often cited as a reason for such a reaction. Is … this reproach justified? What can be done to avert the dangers to both Japan's foreign trade and the world economy caused …

It is now acknowledged even by US officials that Japan's recent efforts to liberalize trade have been remarkable. Our … author, who has recently published a book on "Japan's Options for the 1980s", argues that the continuing EEC complaints about … Japan's behaviour as a trading partner are unjustified: Japan is simply being made a scapegoat for the EEC's own failures. …