Robert Geller
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トランプ大統領は知っておくべき。米国の自動車メーカーは日本で営業努力をしていないこと。
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has a different explanation for U.S. automakers' failure to compete: They're simply not trying. They don't advertise on television, exhibit at the Tokyo Motor Show, or even make much effort to build vehicles for Japan's right-hand-drive market, he said Monday.BUICKS SOLD IN JAPAN LAST YEAR10They also have to battle consumer perceptions that they're costly and poor quality, something for which the government can't really be blamed.The truth is largely on Abe's side. While the U.S. has a 2.5 percent tariff on all passenger car imports and imposes 25 percent on trucks, Japan removed its last levies on auto imports almost four decades ago.
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Mr. Hansson, who’s work in the car business took him to Canada, Hong Kong, and Europe before he ran JLR in Japan, begs to differ: “Japan is not an unusual market. Japan clearly is not more complicated than most other markets, and compared to America, it is less complicated.”
The difference in tariffs should be widely known by now. Japan lets in all cars and trucks tax-free. The U.S. charge a benign 2.5% on cars, and an outrageous 25% on light trucks, a segment that provides for half of all U.S. car sales, and for most of the profit of American automakers. But aren’t there the famous non-tariff barriers? On Monday, President Trump revived the tired trope by saying that unfair Japan does “things to us that make it impossible to sell cars in Japan.”
