	ec official faults u s  bill sir roy denman head of the ec delegation in washington said pending u s  legislation is a misguided attempt to deal with the nation s  deficit and will spark retaliation if passed in its present form to think that you can deal with a  deficit by legislation is a mistake he told the foreign  association here denman told reporters that possible retaliation which he warned of in a letter to house ways and means committee chairman dan rostenkowski would not necessarily be on a product for product basis retaliation does not have to be matched product to product denman said he said in the case of textiles import restrictions however retaliation would be against u s textile exports certainly if restrictions were imposed on european exports of textiles to the u s the community would be likely to retaliate with restrictions on u s textile exports to europe denman said he also took exception to u s proposals to require countries with large current account surpluses with the u s to cut those surpluses or face special tariffs this would conflict with international obligations throw a large wrench into the current round of  negotiations and could easily boomerang he warned of the tariff proposals denman also took exception to u s efforts to seek reciprocity in specific  sectors forcing reciprocity in one sector by imposing barriers would simply lead to retaliation from the other party he said adding that overall reciprocity can only be achieved by trading off disadvantages in one sector for advantages in another reuter 
