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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, April 22, 1996 Volume 32ÐNumber 16 Pages 657±691 1 VerDate 28-OCT-97 08:39 Jan 08, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P16AP4.000 p16ap4 Contents Addresses and Remarks Communications to Federal Agencies See also Appointments and Nominations Former Yugoslavia, memorandum on Japan assistance to refugeesÐ685 Diet in TokyoÐ681 Executive Orders Dinner hosted by Emperor Akihito in Educational Technology: Ensuring TokyoÐ680 Opportunity for All Children in the Next Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister CenturyÐ677 Hashimoto in TokyoÐ684 Interviews With the News Media U.S.S. Independence in YokosukaÐ674 Exchanges with reporters Japan-U.S. tradeÐ657 Anchorage, AlaskaÐ664 Radio addressÐ663 Cheju, South KoreaÐ665 Russia St. Petersburg, RussiaÐ687 Arrival in St. PetersburgÐ685 News conferences Kazan Cathedral in St. PetersburgÐ687 April 16 (No. 118) with President Kim of Wreath-laying ceremony in St. PetersburgÐ South Korea in ChejuÐ665 686 April 17 (No. 119) with Prime Minister Hashimoto of Japan in TokyoÐ668 Appointments and Nominations Meetings With Foreign Leaders Office of Management and Budget, Director, Japan remarksÐ657 Emperor AkihitoÐ680 Secretary of Commerce, remarksÐ657 Prime Minister HashimotoÐ668, 680, 684 Bill Vetoes South Korea, President KimÐ665 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Proclamations Years 1996 and 1997, messageÐ661 National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness WeekÐ687 Communications to Congress National Volunteer WeekÐ676 See also Bill Vetoes Supplementary Materials Alaska's mineral resources, message Acts approved by the PresidentÐ691 transmitting reportÐ680 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ690 Budget rescissions, message transmittingÐ662 Digest of other White House National Endowment for the Humanities, announcementsÐ688 message transmitting reportÐ679 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ689 Editor's Note: The President was in Moscow, Russia, on April 19, the closing date of this issue. 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Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 28-OCT-97 08:39 Jan 08, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P16AP4.000 p16ap4 Week Ending Friday, April 19, 1996 Remarks on Trade With Japan and and when others work with us in a spirit of the Recess Appointment of the cooperation and mutual benefit. Secretary of Commerce and the The boost in sales is tremendous news for Nomination of the OMB Director American workers, for our auto and auto April 12, 1996 parts manufacturers, for our strong relationship with Japan. I also want to say it is good Thank you very much. Mr. Vice President, news for the people of Japan. When I first Ambassador Kantor, Senator Levin and Con- went to Japan in 1993, I said to the Japanese gressman Levin, all the distinguished leaders people what I will have the opportunity to from the auto industry and Mr. J.C. Phillips reiterate in just a couple of days: We have from the UAW, and to Jim Hill, all the peo- no more important bilateral relationship. We ple here from the agencies that are part of are bound together in our support for de- our Nation's economic team that really mocracy and freedom and for the security worked so hard to achieve these results. I of freedom-loving peoples in Asia and now welcome all of you here. elsewhere as Japan has shouldered bigger I want to thank you for what you said, Jim. and bigger burdens to help us all pursue the I am a car guy. I was 6 years old the first goals that we share. We also know that if time I crawled underneath a 1952 Buick in we have a free and open trading relationship my father's tiny dealership in Hope, Arkan- with them, it will help their economy, it will sas, population 6,000, and I never quite got give their consumers more choices, and it will over it. And one of the things that I promised help both nations to be more competitive as myself I would do if I ever got a chance to we hurtle our way forward into the 21st cen- have an impact on it was to give the American tury. automobile industry the chance to be re- Just 3 years ago our ties were strained by warded for its willingness to compete. And a trading relationship not beneficial to our that is what we have worked hard to do in Nation. The trade wasn't working, but the this administration. ties weren't working either. Today our rela- I just saw somethingÐMickey Kantor and tionship is working better for both of us. I walked outside, along with the Vice Presi- There's a lot to be done. In a big and complex dent, Mr. Panetta, and I saw something I relationship like ours there will always be a never thought I would live to see. And just lot to be done. But we are strengthening and 4 years ago, if you had told me that I would deepening our relationship. It is now a pow- see it, I'm not sure I would have believed erful force for creating opportunity, for ad- itÐright-hand drive American models made vancing democracy, and for improving the by American workers in American plants quality of life in both our countries. bound for Japan; a Ford Taurus, a GM-built I also want to say that, as Ambassador Cavalier, a Chrysler Neon built for the Japa- Kantor said earlier, I believe that the right nese market where consumers are now freely kind of trade is critical for our Nation's fu- buying tens of thousands more American cars ture. I believe the position of the United than ever before. These new exports, as oth- States must always be that we favor open ers have said, are the results of efforts by trade. We are not afraid to compete. We be- our car makers and our economic team. We lieve we can win. But if we're going to live have worked to expand our trade on fair in a world where we want others to raise their terms not only with Japan but with others standard of living to our level, and we no throughout the world. These exports show longer control anything like the percentage what we can do when we truly work together of the gross national product we did at the 657 VerDate 28-OCT-97 09:09 Jan 08, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P16AP4.015 p16ap4 658 Apr. 12 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 end of World War II, then, fine, we'll com- In 1992, 6 percent of our new jobs were pete, and we'll help others to advance. But in high-wage industries. In 1995, almost 60 we expect the same access to foreign markets percent of our new jobs were in high-wage that we give foreign producers to ours. It is industries. This strategy will work. It is not a simple rule and one we have followed. It a miracle; it will not work overnight. It plainly is a critical part of our economic strategy. depends for its success primarily on the will- When I became President job growth was ingness of American workers and American slow, the deficit was exploding, more than business leaders to work together, to be com- twice as high as it is now. We did two things. petitive, to be productive. But it will work. We put in place an economic strategy, low- This report shows the difference this ap- ered the deficit, cut it in half in 4 years, get proach will make. interest rates down, increase investments in Last year we reached a landmark agree- education and training, in research and tech- ment that increased our access to the Japa- nology, reform and shrink and make more nese market for autos and for auto parts. One effective the National Government, and ex- of the many legacies of our friend Secretary pand trade on terms both free and fair. That Ron Brown was the establishment with Am- strategy has been implemented by a national bassador Kantor of a team to monitor and economic team, the first time we ever had enforce the agreement. This report shows a fully functioning National Economic Coun- that since the agreement was signed, sales cil to parallel our National Security Council, of American-made autos have increased by to integrate, plan, and implement the eco- more than a third.

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