Enough is Enough? Ford Executive Demands An End To Japan's Automotive Trade Barriers

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Enough is Enough? Ford Executive Demands An End To Japan's Automotive Trade Barriers

Japan's decision to exclude foreign automakers from its cash-for-clunkers program is part of a larger pattern of discouraging imports that the United States cannot afford to tolerate anymore, a Ford Motor Co executive said in an interview.
"This is about frankly a bigger issue than the Japanese scrappage program. This is about them starting to deliver the kind of market opportunities that their companies have taken advantage around the world for so long," said Stephen Biegun, Ford vice president for international governmental affairs.

Ford, General Motors Corp and Chrysler sent a letter to U.S. trade officials last week complaining about conditions in Japan's fleet renewal program they say bar U.S. automakers from participating, even though Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co got a big share of the U.S. cash-for-clunkers program.
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One way trade is destroying America's middle class.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. 40 years this insane policy has been allowed to stand.

Start talking tariffs and watch the fireworks.

[doc03]

2. I read last week China put tariffs on American

steel imports, it's always been a one way street with asia. China produces over 600 million tons of steel per year and last year we only produced 70 million tons and they put tariffs on us. A few decades ago the US was the largest steel producer in the world now China alone outproduces us by a factor of over 8 to 1.

[HopeHoops]

4. Well, they produce what they CALL steel.

Curiously, they also produce what they call "drywall".

[FarCenter]

3. US trade and economic policy is subservient to US defense and foreign policy

The people with the power in the Department of Defense and the State Department are only too happy to let the Japanese government screw American companies, just so long as the Japanese government continues to back their national security and foreign policy political objectives.

The same thing is going on with India now. DoD and State are happy to increase imports from India and to outsource jobs to India in return for India's cooperation on Middle East and South Asia security and political issues.