t utility market. In 2000, “Japanese and Korean companies have supplied 28.4% of the U.S. market for SUVs…They are poised with a raft of new products that are mostly built in North America and aimed squarely at the auto industry’s high-volume mainstream” (Armstrong 50). Because of this growing aggression on behalf of Japanese auto-makers, U.S. officials must move to impose some for of restrictions on Japanese imports.
New global realities have seen the rise of foreign auto-makers who add to the eroding market share Japan enjoys the lion’s share of at present. Korea’s government has demonstrated that a successful auto-manufacturing industry can be built pract
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