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C. The Sale of Shinwa Radio/Cassette Players to Chrysler
1. Shinwa Radio/Cassette Players
NSA supplied electronic and mechanical components from 1983
to 1988 for installation on Chrysler vehicles. One such
component was a radio/cassette player (the Shinwa) manufactured
by Shinwa, a Japanese company that had a factory in China.
2. The NSA/Camaro and Camaro/TCM Agreements
Chrysler’s Acustar division, located in Huntsville,
manufactured components for installation on Chrysler vehicles.
NSA supplied Shinwas to the Acustar division. TCM earned
commissions in 1986 as NSA’s representative for sales by NSA of
small quantities of Shinwas to Chrysler.
In late 1986, Chrysler asked Shinwa to supply all of
Acustar’s radio/cassette players. Shinwa agreed to supply
radio/cassette players to Chrysler for 3 years beginning in 1987.
Chrysler expected to buy $30 million of Shinwas annually.
A draft agreement dated January 1, 1987, relating to the
sale by NSA of Shinwas to Chrysler named NSA as the principal and
TCM as the representative. Koichi Maekawa (Maekawa), president
of NSA, signed the draft agreement, but petitioner did not sign
it. At petitioner’s request, Camaro, not TCM, was named as the
representative. A sales representative agreement (the NSA/Camaro
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