America's Trade Policy Towards Japan

In a few years, the United States has gone from worrying about Japan''s economic might to worrying about its meltdown. The rise and fall of America''s ''results-oriented'' trade policy towards Japan captures this turnaround.
John Kunkel traces this Japan policy to a crisis in the institutions, laws and norms of the US trade policy regime in the first half of the 1980s. This arose from the erosion o...