Disguised Protectionism? Environmental policy in the Japanese car market
Kitano, Taiju
RIETI Discussion Paper 13-E-059 Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) (2013/06/30)
The US government criticized Japanese environmental policies, which promoted eco-friendly car (eco-car) purchases via measures such as tax exemptions and subsidies, as disguised forms of protection by arguing that the fuel economy standard for the subsidy qualification was designed to be more beneficial to domestic firms. This paper ex…