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...lumber and machine-tool industries that it raise tariffs or slow the pace of imports, it last month increased, from 4.4% to 49.4%, the duty on large Japanese motorcycles, which have captured 85% of the U.S. market. That action came after a plea for help from the Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free-trade philosophy. Last week the International Trade Commission unanimously recommended that the U.S. set quotas limiting the import of some steel products...
...Reagan move benefited exactly one U.S. firm: Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Harley, perhaps best known for its big-engine "hogs," is the sole remaining U.S. manufacturer of the two-wheeled machines that have long been synonymous with American rebelliousness, restless individualism and the freedom of the endless highway...
...imposing the tariff, Reagan was following the recommendation of the U.S. International Trade Commission. In January, the I.T.C. agreed with Harley that the company needed temporary relief from the big wheels of Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda. Since 1978, H-D has lost more than a third of the big-bike market (engines of more than 700-cc displacement) to the Japanese. According to Harley-Davidson Chairman Vaughn L. Beals, 1982 sales of about $200 million were down 20% from the preceding year. One reason for the Japanese success is pricing: Harley's top-of-the-line touring model...
...Milwaukee famous, was no longer brewed in town. The company shut the brewery in 1981 because of falling demand. Then Schlitz left town for good when the Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit acquired it. The loss of the hometown brewery was a severe psychological blow. Another Milwaukee tradition, the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company, has been outgunned by Japanese competition. Until this recession, Milwaukee (pop. 636,000) had prospered through fair economic times and foul. Its unemployment rate, along with Wisconsin's, was historically lower than the national average. Now it is higher: 13.4% for the city...
...Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...