From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
> the reason cars built by US firms have never gained any market
> share in Japan is that the Japanese, for 'quality' reasons, essentially
> requires that every US car that is imported be 'inspected', i.e.
> entirely dismantled and put back together at the port when it comes off
> the boat, with the cost of this passed on to the buyer in the sticker
> price.
That's a good example. I've also heard that the Japanese have refused to allow
the importation of lumber from the US, claiming that US lumber doesn't meet
their dimensional requirements, despite that US mills have offered to cut
timber to any specified dimensions. So, the Japanese buy timber from Oregon,
build furniture and other products out of it, and sell the finished products
to the US. With trade partners like that, it's no wonder the US has huge
deficits.
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