Focusing on monetization of international trade per se, this text analyses common financial practices of merchants and manufacturers, commercial banks, and central banks.

Traces the struggle between US and Japanese semiconductor producers from its origins in the 1950s to the novel experiment with "managed trade" embodied in the US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangements of 1986, and the current debate over continuation of elements of that agreement.

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