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Bill Totten, an American, has lived in Japan since 1969. In 1972, he started a company in Tokyo called Ashisuto to sell American software to Japanese companies. Ashisuto now has […]

LEAD: When the Commerce Department released the trade figures for July last week, imports showed an unexpectedly large 8.9 percent drop from the previous month. The overall deficit, $9.5 billion, […]

LEAD: The announcement of February's $13.8 billion trade deficit - the largest in six months - sent a shock through the economy. The stock market fell sharply and the dollar […]

LEAD: Global Competition Global Competition As the trade deficit increases, worries intensify about the ability of American industry to compete. But some American companies are already very successful in the […]

LEAD: The balance-of-trade figures for February, released Friday, showed a widening of the deficit to $10.5 billion, up from January's $8.6 billion deficit. Imports increased 5.6 percent in February, while […]

LEAD: The trade figures for November showed a sharp and unexpected widening of the trade deficit to $12.5 billion, from $10.3 billion in October. The cause of the increase was […]