"Japan’s other barriers, like regulations and design criteria that effectively keep out American-made cars and light trucks, would come down"
Take our crappy cars Japan!
I also didn't realize the US had a large (25%) tariff on trucks.
"The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/episo...
It really is an odd car with questionable build quality and some baffling engineering decisions - the boot/trunk wouldn't open, which turned out to be due to the unlocking mechanism coming loose - but it was only connected to the lock by a single plastic clip, the kind you normally find securing upholstery.
Replacing it with a nut and bolt fixed that, but yeah.