美日贸易是环太平洋经济圈的一个十分重要的组成部分。贸易不平衡一直是美日两大经济超强关系中的重大问题。连年巨额贸易逆差对美国重要工业构成严重威胁,使美国在全球范围内经济竞争力弱化的严竣现实更为突出。对日贸易逆差在八十年代累计超过五千亿美元之巨,迄今每年仍在500亿美元左右,对美国国际收支造成严重负面作用。近年来,美国官方和民 U.S.-Japan trade is a very important part of the Pacific Rim economic circle. Trade imbalance has always been a major issue in the super-strong economic relationship between the two major economies in the United States and Japan. The huge trade deficit year after year has posed a serious threat to the important industries in the United States and made the United States become more prominent in the serious reality of weakening its economic competitiveness on a global scale. The trade deficit with Japan accumulated over 500 billion U.S. dollars in the 1980s and so far it is still around 50 billion U.S. dollars each year, which has a serious negative effect on the U.S. balance of payments. In recent years, the United States officials and people