Chip makers say they won't seek action on Japan

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Citing a growing market share in Japan, the US-based Semiconductor Industry Assn (SIA) will probably not ask the US government in Mar 1993 to level trade sanctions against Japan under terms of a bilateral computer-chip agreement. The trade group will still draw up a list of possible products to retaliate against, but will not ask the government to apply the sanctions if the market-share increases. According to the 1992 semiconductor agreement, Japan was to have faced possible sanctions if it did not import one-fifth of its semiconductors by the end of 1992. The foreign market share in 3rd qtr 1992 was 16 percent. Figures for 4th qtr 1992, which will be reported in March, are expected to show a 17 percent foreign share. With that improvement, it will be hard for US chip makers to call for sanctions before June, when the SIA meets in Tokyo.

Political activity, Semiconductor Industry Association, Market Penetration

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Chairman of U.S. semiconductor panel says it should quit rather than fight

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Ian Ross, chairman of the National Committee on Semiconductors, who is discouraged by the Bush administration's responses to his committee's proposals, says the committee should disband. Congress created the committee in 1988, staffing it with government and industry officials. The purpose of the committee was to work out a viable strategy to stop the nation's decline in the semiconductor industry, but the White House turned down the committee's ideas, saying the committee's proposals were unrealistically expensive and would require too much government intervention. Pres Bush is expected to sign legislation on Feb 12, 1992, authorizing the committee to continue its work for two more years, but Ross says he believes the committee has already done what it can do.

United States, Officials and employees, Laws, regulations and rules, Economic policy, Industry Analysis, Competition, Government Regulation, Critique, United States. National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors

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U.S. chip firms seem to lead Japanese ones in sales this year, but experts aren't sure why

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Industry observers disagree on the reason for US companies' sales of semiconductor devices exceeding Japanese companies' sales for the first time since 1985. Consequently, the Clinton administration is getting conflicting advice about what the government's policy ought to be. Some analysts say government intervention is the cause of the turnaround. They say the semiconductor industry should serve as a model for managed-trade policies in other industries. Other disagree, saying government policies have backfired in unexpected ways. They say the industry was only able to turn around because the government decided not to intervene to the extent advocated by industry representatives.

Planning, Clinton, Bill, Science and technology policy, Market share, Industrial policy, Sales, International markets, World Market

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