Word: export
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II had ended differently, Germany and Japan today might be waging a cold war for military-political supremacy in other countries. Instead, their rivalry is commercial. Thanks to the first postwar "economic miracle," the Germans got a long head start in penetrating world export markets. Even in 1968, West Germany's total exports of almost $25 billion were nearly double Japan's exports of not quite $13 billion. But generally lower-priced Japanese goods have been slicing into the German lead so sharply in so many areas of the world that some Germans are anxious about...
...Japan's yards now build more than half the world's shipping tonnage, German yards less than 9%. The Japanese say that some of the German orders come from shippers who were turned down by Japanese yards that are booked to capacity for years to come. German exporters are losing their markets in China and the rest of Asia to the Japanese, and are being pushed increasingly hard even in Europe. For example, an official of Zeiss Ikon says that Japanese Pentax cameras sell in Switzerland, Holland and Sweden for 5% to 7% less than the comparable Zeiss...