Bargaining With Japan: What American Pressure Can And Cannot Do; Author: Schoppa, Leonard D.; Hardback; Book

Author: Schoppa, Leonard D.
Hardback; Book
426 pages
Published: March 1997
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231105916

Focusing on the Bush administration's Structural Impediments Initiative and the more recent Clinton Framework talks, Schoppa offers a detailed critical examination of the outcome of recent U.S.-Japan trade talks and provides a comprehensive account of the political climate on both sides of the Pacific, drawing lessons about which tactics are most likely to work best for the U.S.The Bush and Clinton administrations faced difficulties in their efforts to open Japanese markets to US goods. This text examines the outcome of US-Japan trade talks, offers strategies most likely to bring concessions from Japan and identifies conditions under which these strategies will work.