A typewritten government briefing page headed Japanese Auto Export Restraints lists a 1.68 million unit limit for the United States and other country-specific automobile trade measures.

July 2, 1981 · Typescript briefing paper

Japanese Auto Export Restraints Briefing Paper

U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration

Why it matters

The briefing paper shows economic rivalry being administered inside the alliance through quotas, forecasts, market shares, and negotiated restraint rather than through a return to wartime enemy imagery.

Publication
Ottawa Economic Summit briefing materials
Holding institution
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Shelfmark
WHORM Subject File FO006-01, case 019806 (3 of 5), Box 13, PDF page 26; digital file 40-654-FO006-01-013-012-2021
Rights
Public Domain; United States Government record

Citation

U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Japanese Auto Export Restraints. July 2, 1981. WHORM Subject File FO006-01, case 019806 (3 of 5), Box 13, p. 26. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, digital file 40-654-FO006-01-013-012-2021.