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VERs under imperfect competition and foreign direct investment: a case study of the US Japan auto VER. - Washington : World Bank, 1991. - The World Bank working papers no. 667 .

Protection of domestic industries through nontariff barriers generally produces unintended effects. The developments that followed the agreement between the United States and Japan on autos demonstrate the complexity of the voluntary export restraint mechanism.


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