Dethlar2004: Blaq Action Hero wrote:

> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
> news:vvtup331ftc22b@corp.supernews.com...
> > In news:8BBLb.1342$dl4.1186@news1.dion.ne.jp,
> > Dethlar2004: Blaq Action Hero <dethlar2004@ammodump.com> radiated into
> > the WorldWideWait:
> > > "thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> > > news:lPzLb.3039$Wa.2434@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> >
> > >> Amazing isn't it, the EXPO 2005 in Aichi is supposed to foster
> > >> international exchange, yet a look at their website "says it all"
> > >
> > > Ahhh...kind of how Japanese car companies in the U.S. can't get
> > > government subsidies for developing gasoline alternative
> > > technologies in automobiles and can't present said cars in U.S.
> > > environmental auto shows?
> >
> > Ahhh... You mean like the duo-powered Hondas on sale in the U.S.?
>
> Apples and Oranges.  It still doesn't mean they get susbsidies

Don't Japanese companies get subsidies in Japan? Do American companies
operating in Japan get subsidies like Japanese companies do in Japan?

> or are invited to the show.

Yes, non tariff barriers and other kinds of obstacles to free trade should
be eliminated.

But we are talking about the Japanese. Speaking of cars, foreign cars
account for only about one percent of sales in Japan, and the most popular
foreign makes are German. In the US the share held just by Japanese brands
accounts for closer to 30 percent. I do not know if it is still true, but
when I was at university, it was Japanese practice to inspect each and
every automobile from the US before accepting them into the country for
sale. Mercedes Benz, on the other hand, was eventually allowed to be
accepted in batches based on a single vehicle inspection, which is more
similar to the American practice. Naturally, the US does not hold up
shiploads of cars from Japan to inspect every single one, rejecting those
with, for example, a one millimeter misalignment of body trim, the way
Japanese inspectors may do with US automobiles to block trade. Japanese car
companies don't have to tie up with rival domestic brands to open up a car
dealership, the way US automakers had to hook up with Japanese car
dealerships, either.

Japanese can no longer make the excuse that American made cars are not
suited for the Japanese driving environment, as Japanese make their own
large size, large displacement performance or luxury automobiles, and US
automakers also make compact and right hand drive cars. And considering the
way Japanese dispose of their (Japanese made) cars within a literal handful
of years (the reason fine, low mileage used cars in Japan may be
ridiculously cheap), they cannot make the argument that (only) US made cars
are unreliable, either.

You are a funny one to point the accusing finger at the US auto industry in
a thread on Japanese trade barriers. Why don't you for example, bring up
the WTO and agriculture instead?

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