Trade Policy Preferences in the Japanese Textile Industry

Abstract

The automobile and electronics industries have advanced international operations in the form of multinational production and corporate alliances, and these moves have become a catalyst of changes in corporate preferences for open trade. This chapter approaches the central interest of this study, the relationship between the internationalization of corporate activities and its influence on pro-liberal corporate preferences from a different viewpoint; that is, how internationally oriented firms react to protectionist tendencies in an import competing industry.