| From: [email protected] (Gunnar Blix)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Japanese market penetration. . .
Date: 28 Feb 92 17:33:53 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>...I was not aware of a problem between us and Norway. Please
>elaborate ....
A basic example is that of Norwegian Salmon. Although there is no real
`trade barrier', various restrictions that from Norway's point of view
are lousy excuses are placed on the sale of Salmon to the U.S. A
typical example was the immediate bans placed on it after Chernobyl,
regardless of assurances from the Norwegian government that all exports
were thorougly tested.
It also works the other way around: the U.S. threatening restrictions
on imports from Norway unless Norway buys more of their apples, and so
on.
It is quite amusing to follow the discussions on U.S. `fair trade' with
Japan, knowing that they turn around and do the same thing to other
(smaller) countries. The best indication I know that the U.S. is
totally dependent on their own unfair trade is their unwillingness to
`go metric' - if they really wanted to compete with foreign companies
on a fair basis, they would long since have attempted to switch.
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