	u s weighs lifting japanese  curbs the white house has completed a new review of japanese semiconductor trading practices but has not yet decided whether  sanctions levied against japan last april should be lifted u s officials said they said the president s economic policy council looked at japan s adherence to the u s japanese semiconductor pact yesterday and that an announcement may be made shortly but there was no hint what the announcement might be officials have said the pct tariffs on mln dlrs of japanese exports could be modified if japan was found to be honoring a portion of its semiconductor pact but they also noted that the white house has said it was unlikely the tariffs would be lifted before the meeting of the world s seven major economic powers in venice on june the officials added that while the curbs complicated u s japanese economic cooperation they did serve to blunt congressional criticism that the reagan administrtation was not taking tough actions to reduce he u s  deficit reagan imposed the sanctions on april in retaliation for japan s failure to honor commitments to end dumping semiconductors in world markets at less than production costs and to open its own market to u s goods the sanctions were levied on certain japanese television sets personal computers and hand held power tools reagan in imposing the curbs said they would be lifted as soon as there was evidence of a pattern that japan was adhering to the pact reuter 
