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Wasn't there a US import ban on Toshiba products for a few years back in the 80s, apparently because they sold parts to the Soviet Union?
by f00zz 6y ago
Wasn't there a US import ban on Toshiba products for a few years back in the 80s, apparently because they sold parts to the Soviet Union?
- oska 6y agoMaybe? I don't know. My father's business wasn't in the US.
- jzwinck 6y agoPart of Toshiba was banned from selling into the US for two years at the end of the 80's for selling machines to the USSR which were used to make quiet propellers for submarines. https://apnews.com/aad45a6f2de8d599d97242394be65923 https://apnews.com/aad45a6f2de8d599d97242394be65923 This response by the US would have hurt both Japan and the US, while not so much affecting the USSR who already had their quiet propellers. It probably did hurt US consumers, but it didn't end up hurting the US government which ignored its own ban! https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1988/12/15/toshiba-machine-exporting-to-us-months-after-bans-signing/cdede8cf-cb12-49c0-a197-4cea3cd9c6a2/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1988/12/15/t...