TY  - JOUR
AU  - Levinsohn, James
TI  - CARWARS: Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5349
PY  - 1995
Y2  - November 1995
DO  - 10.3386/w5349
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5349
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5349.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James A. Levinsohn
Yale School of Management
PO Box 208200
New Haven, CT  06520
Tel: 734/763-2319
Fax: 734/764-2769
E-Mail: James.Levinsohn@yale.edu
M1  - published as James Levinsohn. "Carwars: Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets," in Robert C. Feenstra, editor, "The Effects of U.S. Trade Protection and Promotion Policies" University of Chicago Press (1997)

AB  - This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts.  The paper argues that there are structural differences between the way that the auto industries are organized in the U.S. and Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the growing bilateral trade deficit in auto parts.  The paper also provides econometric estimates of what would have happened had the threatened 100 percent tariff on Japanese luxury cars not been withdrawn by the U.S.
ER  -