Word: nontariff
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...Washington. His willingness to make the trip scarcely eight weeks after he had assumed office was interpreted as a sign that the Japanese are anxious to preserve their 30-year friendship with the U.S. Two weeks ago, in preparation for the Prime Minister's tour, his government reduced nontariff barriers on a number of relatively unimportant U.S. imports. Nakasone also moved decisively to ease tensions over defense policy. He inserted a modest increase in defense spending into his otherwise austere national budget, and he ended a 15-year ban on Japan's sharing its military technology with...
...liberalizing measures, the third in 13 months. It included tariff cuts on such items as tobacco products, chocolate and biscuits. The measures will do little to shrink Japan's huge (estimated $17.5 billion for 1982) trade surplus with the U.S., but Nakasone has promised a review of such nontariff barriers as complex customs requirements and byzantine distribution systems...
...merely a theoretical ideal. All trading nations protect themselves, more or less. West Germany is the nation that is most open, closely followed by the U.S. France is more protectionist than the U.S. Almost everyone except the Japanese regards the Japanese as the most protectionist, given to such elaborate nontariff barriers as the superzealous customs check and a cohesive, even collusive, partnership between business and government...
Last year the battle was over automobiles and trucks. Now Japan and the other major industrial countries are heading for an even more serious collision. At issue this time is whether or not Japan's byzantine web of nontariff import barriers is really just disguised protectionism, and, if so, what should be done about...
Although the Suzuki government has pledged to chop away at some of the more egregious nontariff barriers, there are thousands of import restrictions that permeate life and society in Japan. Says one Japanese businessman candidly: "Consider the inspector who has been sitting at the dock in Yokohama saying no for 40 years. He is going to find it very hard suddenly to start saying yes just because some politician in Tokyo says it is the new policy...