This whole chapter where the U.S. negotiates 'voluntary' import restrictions with Japan and later lifts them is undercovered and potentially has some rich PODs.The Reckoning, David Halberstam, 1986, page 657:
" . . . The brief period of artificial prosperity ended in late 1985 when the voluntary restrictions on Japanese cars were relaxed. . . "
https://books.google.com/books?id=n...ficial prosperity ended in late 1985"&f=false
In particular how might the U.S. have managed the transition without the loss of so many middle-class jobs? (the auto industry both emblematic and a bug chunk on its own)