European Automakers Find That Japan Is A Hard Market To Crack, Too

In the fight over whether to allow Japan into the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, a key defense by the Japanese automotive industry against complaints by the 'Detroit Three' about Japan's closed auto market has been to cite the success of European automakers that have made bigger inroads there.

But the argument that U.S. companies are not trying hard enough when compared with their European counterparts, as put forward by groups like the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), is called into question as the European auto industry also complains about trade barriers in Japan.

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