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...Japan's new Minister of External Economic Affairs, were put together in response to intense U.S. pressure on Japan to reduce its trade barriers and stimulate its economy in order to boost demand for imports. But the concessions were far less significant than American officials wanted. To Robert Strauss, the President's chief trade negotiator, the proposals "fall considerably short of what this Government feels is necessary." Not surprisingly, Ushiba himself, in a burst of frankness, had warned reporters before leaving Japan that his proposals would not satisfy the Americans...
Washington officials expressed pleasure at Fukuda's moves, but vowed to keep up the heat on Japan. Breakfasting with reporters, Chief Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss asserted: "We think some adjustments have to be made and made soon." When? "This afternoon," cracked Strauss. He reported that he is getting four to ten phone calls a day from Congressmen worried about foreign competition...
...Carter Administration, to its credit, is taking a different line. Although they have negotiated an "orderly marketing agreement" limiting sales of Japanese color TVs in the U.S., the President and his aides are concentrating not on buying less from Japan but on selling more to it. Strauss wants the Japanese to abolish quotas on agricultural goods and lower tariffs on myriad manufactured products. Says he: "Right now we're getting the worst of it on computers, calculators, film, citrus fruits, meat, certain textiles." He also wants the Japanese to relax or abolish specification and inspection requirements used to keep...
...final blow came in November when a U.S. trade delegation headed by Richard Rivers, Strauss's general counsel, visited Tokyo. The Americans demanded that Japan step up its domestic economic growth to 8% a year or so, as an alternative to reliance on exports, and that it set a specific date for converting its trade surplus to a deficit. Fukuda responded with the Cabinet shakeup; his new ministers are already at work hammering out a program that Ushiba will present to Carter aides in Washington sometime this month...
...book is original and thought-provoking yet, throughout, one should remember that 16th century warning about relying on the clever for unbiased information. Certainly, Cannibals and Kings is entertaining and unburdened by the gobbledygook much recent writing on sociology is infamous for. Its chief fault is its glibness. Levi-Strauss, discussing the theories of geographer-turned-anthropologist Boas, wrote: "Social experiences and those constant interactions between the group and the individual cannot be inferred; they must be observed...