[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4966]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   HANG TOUGH ON AUTO TRADE SANCTIONS

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include extraneous 
material.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, at this very moment our United States trade 
ambassador is announcing proposed trade sanctions against Japan for its 
unfair trade practices. After a decade, the executive branch of our 
Government has taken seriously Congress' mandate to open Japan's auto 
market.
  Imposing penalties on Japan has my full support. In the weeks ahead, 
as Democratic cochair of the auto caucus here, I urge United States 
representative Mickey Kantor to hang tough for America and fight as 
hard as he can to increase our access to Japan's market. If this Nation 
were to achieve auto trade equity with Japan we could build 100 new 
factories in this country, each employing 5,000 people. That is how big 
the gap really is.
  The United States has trade balances with every other major trading 
partner in the world but for Japan. So for Japan, the time has come.

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