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only major market from which Japan buys manufactured "primary"
goods such as textiles and chemicals-thus making European exports
highly vulnerable to Japan's protectionist forces; and (b) the Japanese
need for a balance-of-payments surplus to pay for their oil imports-
between 1973 and 1976, annual Japanese outlays for Middle Eastern oil
climbed $13.8 billion.
Japan's success in the competitive struggle unleashed by the oil crisis is...