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US-Japan trade frictions may ease
TOKYO. Oct 27: US Ambassador Walter Mondale stood looking over the shelves of a grocery store in a residential area of Tokyo Thursday and smiled with- satisfaction, reports AP.
In the rows and rows of red-white-and-blue marked goods before him. the former vice president said, was proof that the Japanese love their made-in-the-USA cola. Their Kansas beef. Their Hawaiian papayas and California lettuce.
And while American and Japanese trade negotiators continue to fight their battles over . cars. Insurance, telecommunications and a slew of other simmering issues, real breakthroughs are being made. Mondale said.
In broccoli, for instance.
"This American-produced broccoli is shipped in special boats that keep the broccoli' absolutely fresh." he said, hold-ing up a couple heads for emphasis. "And it's so popular here that 20 per cent of all broccoli produced In America is now sold in Japan. It's a great success story."
And a much-needed one.
Earlier -this month, negotiations went into overtime as both countries tried to keep their chronic trade frictions
from escalating into an all-out trade war.
Threatened with sanctions, Japan chose at the last minute to bend. It agreed to open its insurance and glass markets wider "and include more foreign gdods dn its government shopping list.
Both sides hailed the agreement, which US officials said could help expand US business in Japan by billions of dollars.
But with the most tricky issue' of all — autos and auto . parts — and much of the fine print on the others yet to be resolved, the storm is still looming on the horizon.
Trade in the auto sector accounts for as much as- 60 per cent of the United States' overall deficit with Japan, which LIS Commerce Department figures showed swelling to nearly 42 billion dollars for the first eight months of this year.
For all of this year, the deficit is expected to equal or ekceed .last year’s 59 billion dollars.
Japanese officials are quick to point out that this country already fs the world's largest , importer of agricultural products. buying 32 billion dollars worth last year. Mondale also
noted that Japan has become the United Stales' fastest, growing market for agri-goods.'
"What we are looking at here shows what happens when you have an open market." he said during his visit Thursday to .Daiei. one of Japan's largest supermarket chains. Its owner. Isao Nakduchi. is a leading Advocate of easing regulations to allow more Imports.
Mondale might have had trouble finding as much to praise elsewhere, although imports are becoming increasingly visible in neighbourhood grocery stores.
Consumers, presented with import prices sometimes 50 per cent lower than their domestic counterparts, are also starting to come around.
"I think they should bring in lots more beef and other goods as long as they're cheap." said one Daiei shopper. Takatoml Mita.."Price is a big "factor."
But the government s increasingly open stance on some formerly banned- imports. including a promise this year to gradually open its long closed rice market, has hit a very sore nerve al home.