Foreign car sales in the U.S. will rise sharply.
The Commerce Department estimates that more than a third of the new cars sold in this country in 1988 will be imports, compared to less than a quarter last year, a trade publication reported. Automotive News, quoted a department official as saying that the decline in market share could put as many as 500,000 workers out of work--100,000 in the auto industry and 400,000 in the supplier industries.
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