Word: semiconductors
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Kantor also promised, in a speech to the Semiconductor Association last week, to hold Japan to its commitment, made to President Bush, that it would open its market to U.S. computer chips. The idea was that American semiconductors -- which claim 53% of the world market outside Japan -- would be allowed at least 20% of Japanese sales. That is not happening, and so Kantor is moving quickly to put teeth into a new set of rules. Otherwise, he warned, there would be "a rising tide of resentment, a feeling among many Americans that they are getting the short...
...process anyway. Clinton turned to campaign chairman Mickey Kantor to be his Trade Representative even though the Los Angeles lawyer has no experience with the issue and must recuse himself from two upcoming rulings because the law firm in which he retains a financial interest represents NEC, a Japanese semiconductor company, and the automobile firm Suzuki...
...Global semiconductor market share
...semiconductor industry rises from the dead...
...Japan insists that the figure is closer to 20% when IBM shipments of chips to its Japanese subsidiary are counted.) Motorola makes the chips that operate Canon's single-lens-reflex camera, for instance, and Texas Instruments supplies the digital processors for Sony compact-disc players. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, American companies are generating $1 billion a year in extra revenues as a result of the trade pacts. U.S. semiconductor companies are turning their attention to South Korean chipmakers, who were accused of dumping memory chips this year. Last month the Commerce Department levied preliminary antidumping duties...