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Once,when Japan faced pressure from abroad,it would either give in reluctantly or keep quiet and hope that the fuss would die down.The Clinton administration strongly believes in exerting such pressure.Its policy is to open some Japanese markets(which it deems to be closed)by setting import targets —an approach to trade policy that supporters call“result-oriented.”This ugly term foreshadows uncertain consequences.Far from capitulating to this new thrust of American trade policy;Japan is taking a stand that could lead to a trans-pacific confrontation.
Japan's government is deeply opposed to what America's trade representative,Mickey Kantor,has called —a new policy geared to“quantifiable results”for some products.It fears that the demands and threats which are part of any such policy are bound to spread —both within product groups and to new areas of trade.At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan's prime minister,Kiichi Miyazawa,America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets.Japan's government will refuse
Japan's government will take specific measures to meet American new import targets.