The Fall of the U.S. Consumer Electronics Industry: An American Trade Tragedy
This work traces the history and background of the once great American consumer electronics manufacturing industry, an industry that was plagued and finally destroyed by an American-Japanese cartel subverting enforcement of our traditional trade laws. The work is not a Japan-bashing diatribe, but a call for changes in Washington, and a return to free trade in our domestic and foreign commerce.
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Based largely on unpublished records of evidence adduced in Zenith's litigation fights to survive over the last 40 years.
List of Exhibits and AppendicesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The Age in Which the Electronics Conspiracies Began1Origins of General Electric3Growing Public Outrage against Big Business Trusts4Sherman Antitrust Act of 18906General Electric and the New Antitrust Law182Zenith Challenges the Patent Racket23Who Was This Challenger, Zenith?23McDonald Joins the Partnership and Moves Zenith into National Prominence25Background of the Zenith Challenge31Zenith Declares War on the RCA Patent Racket33A New Front is Opened in Chicago46Pretrial Discovery in Europe54Developments in Canada69Pretrial Preparation703Trial Is Imminent75Review of the Prospective Trial Evidence: Background and Origin of the Conspiracy75General Electric and American Marconi; RCA and David Sarnoff79The "Package License" Weapon Wielded by RCA86Zenith's Concern over the Government's Concern92The Settlement between Zenith and RCA et al.974"It Ain't Over Till It's Over"103Who or What Was Hazeltine?104Sarnoff's Revenge106The Japanese Television Cartel108The Dumping Case at Treasury116Abrogation of Timely Remedy118Cartel Lobbyists and Lawyers Scuttle Law Enforcement119Japan's New Political Influence Apparatus1485Japanese Government Subsidies153Zenith Petitions for the Levy of Countervailing Duties153Zenith Files Suit over the Commodity Tax Subsidy177The Supreme Court Reviews the Case1796The Final Battle: Matsushita et al. v. Zenith185Zenith Files Treble-Damage Case187How the Cartel Operated191The Twice-Ambushed Trial199The Aftermath209Justice Thurgood Marshall's Tragic Swing Vote214GE and RCA Exploit the Justice Department's "Anti-Antitrust" Policy223Afterword229Appendices233Bibliography331Index335
