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Import Penetration: Closer Look at Japanese and U.S. Home Markets, by Industry
Both the U.S. and Japanese domestic markets have become increasingly internationalized in all high-tech
industries. (See figure 6-12 and appendix table 6-5.) For example, during the 1980s, of the six high-tech industries examined, the U.S. computer and
office equipment industry experienced the greatest rate of increase in import competition from other industrialized countries, but especially from Japan. (Click here for footnote 15.) U.S. industry continues to
dominate its home market for aircraft and pharmaceutical products.
During the 1980s, foreign suppliers gained a larger presence in several of Japan's high-tech markets. Foreign suppliers of aircraft and related products have traditionally been very successful in selling in Japan; that success was replicated in
several other high-tech markets, especially after 1985. Imports increasingly supplied an expanded demand for computers and office equipment and scientific instruments in Japan. U.S. manufacturers of these
high-tech products were particularly successful: U.S. manufacturers of computer and office equipment and of scientific instruments have not simply increased their market share in Japan, but have also continued to dwarf the market share gains made by
suppliers from all other major industrialized countries. (Click here for footnote 16.)
Footnote 15:
Information on the source of imports is derived from product-level trade data.
Footnote 16:
This information on Japan's source of imported computers and office equipment, scientific instruments, and other high-tech products is extracted from OECD Trade Series C data processed by dri/McGraw-Hill under contract to the National Science
Foundation.
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