	japan in last ditch effort to avert tariffs senior japanese officials tomorrow open talks with american  negotiators in a last ditch effort to avert new high u s tariffs to be imposed on a wide variety of japanese electronic exports makoto kuroda vice minister of japan s ministry of international  and industry miti is to hold two days of meetings with the deputy u s  representative michael smith and the under secretary of commerce bruce smart the new tariffs to go into effect on april are in retaliation for japan s failure to adhere to an agreement to end dumping semiconductors in world markets at below cost and to open its home market to u s semiconductor shipments they are to be imposed on goods which use semiconductors including television and audio equipment and computers both u s and japanese officials have said there was little likelihood the talks would do anything to avert the pct duties on mln dlrs worth of japanese shipments president reagan announced the planned tariffs on march after he said that close monitoring of the july u s japanese semiconductor pact convinced u s officials that japan was not honoring the agreement in making the annoucement reagan said i am committed to the full enforcement of our  agreements designed to provide american industry with free and fair   analysts said his move was aimed as much at japan s semiconductor  practices which are said to have injured the u s semiconductor industry as congress which has complained about presidential timidity on  issues congressional democrats have pledged to enact aggressive  laws to counter what they contend has been reagan s inaction to redress the growing u s  deficit which last year reached billion dlrs about one third of the deficit was with japan reagan said there were recent signs japan was beginning to adhere to the pact and that was why he was not terminating it kuroda said on leaving tokyo today he had no new proposals but did have an explanation of the semiconductor situation he told the daily newspaper ashai shimbun that reagan s decision was based on inaccurate data and an exaggerated sense of miti s power to control japanese rs the united states has excessive expectations he said to stabilize supply demand relations which have been disrupted by excess inventories since will take some time he also said that u s firms had not been aggressive enough in trying to sell in the japanese market reuter 
