Affirmative action: U.S. chip makers find 'quotas' help them crack Japan's market: under a managed-trade pact, they informally get share of Japan's chip business: but will it limit them, too?
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American semiconductor companies are doing much better in Japan thanks to a 1986 managed trade accord between the two countries that provides an affirmative action-like quota system. Since the accord, US companies have stopped their decline in the market, and have gained four percentage points of market share for a total Japanese market share of 12.3 percent. The difference between this trade accord and others that merely call for Japan to open its markets is that the 1986 agreement set rigid guidelines that called for Japan to set aside 20 percent of its market for foreign manufacturers. While the total foreign share in Japan is still only 13.1 percent, semiconductor companies are confident that the growth trend will continue.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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AT&T, NEC agree to cooperate on basic chip-making technology; pact reflects need to trim costs of development with help from Japan
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AT and T and NEC Corp create a US-Japanese alliance by agreeing to share technologies on how to make semiconductors. Industry observers view this alliance as evidence of the fact that it is too expensive to stay in the semiconductor business without creating partnerships. AT and T is also a member of Sematech, a US semiconductor consortium that aims to increase the ability of the US semiconductor industry to compete. AT and T indicated that it will not share any information it gets from Sematech; analysts note that its move to create a partnership with NEC is indicative of Sematech's inability to stay on the leading edge of semiconductor technology.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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