At the urging of the U.S. government, the Japanese manufacturers adopted "voluntary" restraints on their exports of vehicles to the U.S. beginning in 1981.

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Voluntary price restraints by manufacturers put in place during the Asian Crisis will not last much longer, and the government is phasing out subsidies for rice.

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What's more offensive is that Americans have been routinely victimized by the automobile lobby in the form of voluntary export restraints imposed on Japanese producers, not to mention the tariffs placed on the exports offered up by those same producers.

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