GENEVA. Switzerland, Feb 1: The United States, the European Community and Canada have launched a final effort to get Japan to improve its market access offers under the Uruguay Round of world trade negotiations. US Ambassador to GATT John Schmidt said here on Monday, reports AFP.

Negotiators of the four big trade powers got together in Geneva Sunday evening for talks on the current status of the agreement concluded late last year under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) ahead of the official signature of the final document-slated for April 15 in Marrakesh. Morocco

The deadline for submission of. offers In the vital sector of access to national markets has been pushed back to February IS..

Schmidt told AFP that at the four powers Sunday meeting. "We just reviewed where we stand, making sure of what is going to. appear In

our tariff offers.’’

But the gathering was also aimed at putting pressure on Tokyo, which the other three participants say has not gone far enough in offers on cutting tariffs Ilie envoy said that "for the US. ther> ■ are still some outstanding Issues in market access . . . areas where we are still looking for. them (the Japanese) to take more action" — with four main type* of products in question: wood, copper, white spirits and footwear.

For each of those four cate- ' gortes. the United States, the EC and Canada agreed in December on a "zero to zero" solution, under which each party would completely do aWay with its tariffs, naturally on a reciprocal basis. Japan ha* not agreed to date to accepted that nation, said Schmidt.

Schmidt said that the United States had essentially completed" trade negotiations with the European Community and Japan-unllke the situation with Japan.