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Details on car tariffs fuzzy as US, Japan head for trade deal

Reuters, Tokyo
US President Donald Trump has said Washington and Tokyo have reached an initial trade deal that he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are expected to sign in New York later this month.
Top Japanese officials, however, said a deal had yet to be clinched.
Full details of the agreement have not been disclosed. Below are some key elements that are known - and unknown - about the pending agreement. Trump's announcement has left unanswered questions over whether the agreement would deliver Japan one of the main prizes of its negotiations: a US pledge not to impose national security tariffs of up to 25 percent on Japanese vehicles and auto parts under Section 232 of US trade law.
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, who is in charge of talks with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, told a news conference he wanted to reconfirm at the final stage of talks that the tariffs would not be imposed.
Japanese officials from Abe on down have said that under a September 2018 agreement, the United States would not impose added auto tariffs while trade talks were under way.
Japanese auto exports account for about two-thirds of the US trade deficit with Japan and the added tariffs would deal a blow to the country's trade-reliant economy.
A preliminary deal announced on Aug. 25 included reduced US tariffs on unspecified industrial products but Lighthizer said these did not include autos. Tokyo has sought removal of a US 2.5
percent tariff on autos and auto parts.
Japan is expected to agree to cut tariffs on imports of US beef and pork to within levels granted to signatories of the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact, officials have said.
That would allow Trump to please US farmers ahead of next year's presidential election. The farmers had been disadvantaged in Japan's market after the United States withdrew from TPP after Trump took office in 2017. It would also let Abe keep a pledge to domestic producers.
Lighthizer said last month that wheat, dairy products, wine and ethanol would also benefit from the deal.
Washington, meanwhile, will make it easier for Japan to increase US-bound beef exports by scrapping a 200-ton annual low-tariff quota, affording Japan the same beef trade status as Australia, New Zealand and Canada, Japanese media reported.
In announcing the initial agreement last month, Trump made reference to Japan's decision to front-load planned purchases of US feed com imports to cope with damage to its crop from an armyworm infestation.
However, Japanese officials said the country's total feed com imports wouldn't increase under the deal, which simply frontloads three months' worth of roughly 2.75 million tons of imports. Private companies have the final say in how much feed corn they import.
Japan has agreed to phase out tariffs on US wine imports over five to seven years, about the same as the eight-year TPP timeframe, media said, potentially cutting the cost of US wine by about 13 percent for wine distributors.