2. INDIAN FOREIGN TRADE
COMPARING THE UNITED STATES TO JAPAN

3. USA JAPAN
• Population- 303,824,640 • Population-127,288,416
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Unemployment-4.6% Unemployment-3.9%
• •
Literacy Rate -99% Literacy Rate -99%
• •
GDP -$13.84 trillion GDP -$4.29 trillion
• Per Capita Income -$45,800 • Per Capita Income -$33,600
• •
Growth Rate -2.2% Growth Rate -2.1%

4. SIMILARITY IN INDUSTRIES
USA JAPAN
• •
Petroleum Motor vehicles
• •
Steel Electronic equipment
• •
Motor vehicles Machine tools
• •
Aerospace Steel
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Telecommunications Non-ferrous metals
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Chemicals Ships
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Electronics Chemicals
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Food processing Textiles
• •
Consumer goods Processed foods
• Lumber
• Mining

5. ICONIC BRANDS
USA JAPAN
• GE • Sony
• General motors • Mitsubishi
• Wal-Mart • Toyota
• Dell • Honda
• Microsoft • Daichi
• Coca-cola • Toshiba
• Marlboro • Hitachi
• McDonalds • Mack daddy’s
• Oracle • Nintendo
• Google

6. NASDAQ VS. NIKKIE
You got a bubble, a devastating crash, followed by a
recovery and inflation of another bubble

7. CURRENCY
US Dollar vs. Japanese Yen, Weekly

8. MORE SIMILARITIES
• The Twentieth Century ended with two of the greatest
financial market booms of all time.
• First in Japan in the late 1980s when the value of a few
hundred acres in downtown Tokyo became more valuable
than the entire state of California.
• And then when the giddy potential of the Internet turned
legions of high tech entrepreneurs and investors into
instant millionaires and even billionaires in the United
States in the late 1990s.

9. • Interest rates in Japan are essentially zero
• Interest rates have fallen dramatically in the
United States.
• Japan has had deflation since the mid 1990s
• By October 2002 the Japanese wholesale price
index stood half a percentage point below its
level twelve months earlier.

10. • The United States does not yet have
deflation, but it has relatively low inflation.
• Japan has slow growth and a relatively high
unemployment.
• The United States has recently shown slow
growth and has relatively even higher
unemployment.

11. CONCLUSION
• The US & Japanese economy are one of the most
influential economies in the world.
• They constitute 35% of the world GDP.
• One is the western power & the other eastern giants.
• Historically recession in both the economies have affected
the globe.
• Japanese crash lead to the 1997 ASIAN crisis & the SUB-
PRIME MORTGAGE is the 2008 American dream.