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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
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.

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)
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