	japan opens home market to u s fish japan has agreed to drop barriers to american caught herring and pollock opening the way for shipments that could reach mln dlrs annually u s  representative clayton yeutter announced yeutter said the accord was reached after extensive bilateral negotiations that ended earlier today in tokyo he said the commerce department estimated u s shipments of processed pollock products and herring should rise to mln dlrs this year and to more than mln dlrs annually in later years there was no immediate assessment of the value of current u s shipments but officials said the pact would lift quotas to the point that americans would be able to ship nearly all the pollock and herring ordered by japanese firms at the same time yeutter said washington was temporarily suspending a complaint with the general agreement on tariffs and  gatt that japan was unfairly curbing imports of the two fish he said the complaint would be reviewed later this year after an assessment to see if japan lived up to the agreement reuter 
