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US. Javanese negotiators keen talk's going beyond deadline
WASHINGTON Oct I US and Japanese officials were forked in marathon talks Saturday, searching for agreements to boost Japanese purchases of American autos and auto parts, telecommunications and medical equipment and insurance, reports AP.
•While the United States had set a deadline of midnluhl (0400 GMT Saturday) for concluding deals, negotiators kept talking, hoping to finally bring home some major agreements in the tortuous 15-month negotiating saga.
President Clinton has warned that if successful deals aren't reached, the United States will begin trade sanctions proceedings against Japan.
Administration officials contend they can no longer tolerate Japanese intransigence in ^the face of a record dlrs 60
billion trade deficit with that country.
In Tokyo. Prime Minister Tomilchf Murayama expressed concern Saturday about the lack of progress in the talks.
''I think the situation is severe.1’ Murayama was quoted by Kyodo News Service as saying.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Kozo Igarashi, who also attended a briefing by Foreign and Trade Ministry officials, said Japan'has tabled every offer It can. according to the report.
US Traded Representative Mickey Kantor tentatively scheduled a midday fl600 ’ GMT) news conference to announce the outcome of ihe discussions.
In an effort to settle disputes. Japan dispatched two high-ranking officials. Foreign Minister Yohei Knf and Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Both men said they hoped
agreements could be reached.
Hashimoto, who was heading the auto negotiations, left shortly before midhight (0400 GMT), saying no deal hap Ijeen reached, although he indicated he. would return later in the day.
Kantor continued talks with . Kono, the leader of the overall framework negotiations, into the early morning hours.
US and Japanese officials said they were very close to agreements to open up Japan's Insurance market and increase Japanese government purchases of foreign medical and telecommunications equipment.
But both sides remained far apart in the more politically sensitive area of autos and auto parts, which account for 60 per cent of America’s deficit with Japan.
Al Jssue in all the discussions Is a US demand for
"objective criteria" to measure progress in meeting the sales goals. The Japanese have denounced this as a backdoor way to establish market quotas, something they brand as managed trade.
However, American industry has pressured the administration not to relent on this demand, saying that without specific measurement devices these trade deals will fail to produce results and the US Japan deficit will continue to swell.
The administration has said that if a deal isn't reached In the government purchasing’ talks, it would move to restrict sales of Japanese medical and • telecommunications equipment to. US government agencies within the next 30 days.
In addition, the administration has threatened to cite Japanese barriers under a special provision of a US trade
law known as Super 301. That would trigger further negotiations which would last at least a year.
• After that tinje. the United States could impose punitive sanctions equal to the estimated amount of sales being lost by American producers in the Japanese market.
US officials have Indicated that autos, auto parts and flat glass were being considered for possible designation under Super 301. ,
The current talks are being held under a so-called "framework" accord signed by Clinton on a trip to Tokyo in July 1993. That accord, by setting out new negotiating ground rules, was supposed to put an end to the Interminable bickering that has characterised to US-Japan trade relations over more than two decades.
But It hasn't worked that
way. Instead, the two sides have haggled endlessly over just what they agreed to in the framework accord.
A summit between Clinton and then-Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa broke off In acrimony last February over the measurement question, and It took .three months to get the two sides together again
For. a time this year. US officials softened their rhetoric with Japan out of concern that the tough talk was unsettling global currency markets and driving the dollar to record lows against the Japanese yen.
In advance of the latest negotiating session, adminlstra lion officials sought to reassure financial markets that any sanctions that were imposed would be targeted against specific products and not be’ broad based.