美国总统克林顿和日本首相细川,2月11日在华盛顿举行了双边会谈。因未能就持续了8个月的美日贸易框架谈判达成协议而成为二战以后首次失败的美日首脑会晤。 在谈判中,美方坚持要求以数字指标作为衡量两国贸易关系的标准,并要求日本首先对美国开放日本的汽车及汽车零配件、电信产品、医疗仪器和保险市场,允许美国的前三项产品在日本的销售额在4年 U.S. President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Shinogawa held bilateral talks in Washington on February 11. Due to the failure to reach an agreement on the US-Japan trade framework negotiations that lasted eight months, it became the first US-Japan summit that failed after World War II. During the negotiations, the United States insisted on the use of numerical indicators as a measure of the trade relations between the two countries, and demanded that Japan first open Japan’s automobile and auto parts, telecommunications products, medical instruments and insurance markets to the United States, and allow the United States’ first three products. Sales in Japan in 4 years