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Perhaps at no other time in history have trade, technology and security been intertwined more closely than they are today. A good illustration of this is provided by a recent Japan-US agreement on semiconductors.1 For some considerable time Japan and the US have been competing very hard in this area, and Japan is clearly catching up. Responding to accusations by US semi-conductor producers that Japanese producers were dumping their products on the US market and to the demands for action under Article 301 of the US Trade Act, the US and Japan have recently agreed that the anti-dumping cases against the Japanese semi-conductor producers of the eprom and 256K dram semi-conductors be suspended, provided that:
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the Department of Commerce monitor all the quarterly statistics on Japan’s production and sales of eprom and 256K dram, and the Japanese government do the same on six other kinds of semi-conductors, including Japanese exports of semi-conductors to third countries; and
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Japan set up an organization to expand its imports of semiconductors from the US and other countries.
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A similar view is found in Peter Polomka, The Two Koreas: Catalyst for Conflict in East Asia? Adelphi Paper 208, (London: IISS, 1986), p. 37.
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Inoguchi, T. (1987). Trade, Technology and Security: Implications for East Asia and the West: Part II. In: O’Neill, R. (eds) East Asia, the West and International Security. International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference Papers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09845-3_17
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