PLAZA ACCORD

A 1985 agreement among the G-5 nations, which are France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, to manipulate exchange rates by depreciating the U.S. dollar relative to the Japanese yen and the German Deutsche mark. Also known as the Plaza Agreement, its purpose was to correct trade imbalances between the United States and Germany and the U.S. and Japan, but it only corrected the trade balance with the former.