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...trip was organized by the U.S.-Japan Committee for Promoting Trade Expansion, a group of American and Japanese legislators working to widen export opportunities for small and medium-sized U.S. businesses...
...FIRST step I made was to put my best foot forward, ideologically-speaking. I hitched a ride with a quasi-legal import-export merchant to Nicaragua and then took an arms freighter to Cuba where I was able to register with the Comintern and buy some identification papers. I was now Rutger Gorbachev, long lost grand-nephew, twice removed, from the Soviet premier. I figured the pull might be useful later...
Again, the economy is in a terrible state. The country has endured four years of "negative growth"--declining prices for major export crops, especially sugar. It suffers under a per capita debt burden of $1500, but per capita earnings are only about half that. Aquino's extraordinarily muddled set of policies and priorities in response to these problems conspire to make a bad situation even worse...
...other hand, the Japanese government had trade news of a different sort for U.S. auto manufacturers. For the seventh consecutive year Tokyo announced that it would continue a program of voluntary export quotas on cars destined for the U.S. This year's ceiling of 2.3 million vehicles remained the same as in the two previous years. Japanese automakers termed the government restraints a necessary evil to avoid a flare-up of U.S. protectionist sentiments...
...between the U.S. and any alleged offending country be a factor in considering retaliation for any unfair trading practices. That would allow the Administration formally to take into account any U.S. trade deficit or surplus with each country, as well as the openness of both national marketplaces to similar export products. Theoretically, Washington could then impose tariffs or trade quotas on those that have a trade surplus with the U.S. The fact is that the Administration already takes such factors into account on an unofficial basis. Writing the conditions into law, however, would give them considerable extra force...