Reagan Administration Forces Asian Countries to Open Markets to US Cigarettes Companies

September 1, 2000 | HistoryCommons.org

September 1, 1996

The Reagan administration’s Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) pressures several countries—under threat of sanctions—to open their markets to American cigarettes: Japan in September 1986, Taiwan in late 1986, and South Korea in May 1988. By 1991, sales of American cigarettes in these new markets are 600 percent higher than they would have otherwise been without US intervention, according to the Boston-based National Bureau of Economic Research. Continue

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The Tobacco and Trade Wars

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September 1, 1996

In a clear demonstration of how U.S. trade policy gives undue preference to the U.S. tobacco industry, the Reagan administration recently threatened Japan, Taiwan and South Korea with trade sanctions if they didn't increase imports of American cigarettes and, in the case of Taiwan, remove a prohibition on cigarette advertising. Continue

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