One major point of contention in the Japan-US negotiations has been the massive imbalance in car sales between the second and third biggest car-making countries in the world. Toyota alone sold over 2.3 million cars in the US last year, and around a quarter of those were imported from Japan. Conversely, the number of GM cars sold in Japan is so low I can’t even find reliable numbers about it, but the estimates I saw seem to hover around 1,000 or so per year.

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