U.S. computer and chip makers seek new agreement with Japan

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Representatives of the American computer and semiconductor industries have resolved their difficulties and have asked the Bush Administration to negotiate a new five-year trade agreement with Japan to open more market opportunities. A previous five-year agreement expires in Jul 1991. The new proposal was conveyed to the administration by the Semiconductor Industry Associates (SIA), representing chip makers, and the Computer Systems Policy Project, representing leading computer manufacturers. The computer industry had opposed any trade complaint that might keep prices of semiconductors high, but according to Rod Canion, CEO at Compaq Computer Corp, American computer makers now realize that US industries 'must work together in today's highly competitive world and that each has a vested interest in the health and well-being of the others.'

Semiconductors and related devices, United States, Semiconductor industry, Computer industry, Japan, Japanese foreign relations, United States foreign relations, Semiconductor Industry Association, International competition (Economics), Japanese Competition, International Trade, Computer Systems Policy Project

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East awaits flow of Western technology; lifting restrictions will be focus of Cocom talks

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The Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (Cocom) is meeting in Paris on Jun 6-7, 1990 and is expected to ease trade restrictions to the Eastern bloc nations for computers, machine tools and other technological products. East Germany is expected to gain the greatest trade privileges and may be considered a special trade zone to which West Germany will be allowed to export products except those that have obvious military applications. Cocom will also consider whether to ease restrictions on Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia that would allow the export of computers capable of processing speeds of 2G-bits, which includes all computers except supercomputers and special mainframe computers with vector arrays.

Computers, Digital computers, Political aspects, International economic relations, Restraint of trade, Activism, Political protest, Technology transfer, Most favored nation clauses, Political Issue, Trade, Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls

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