	s korea says japan complains to gatt on  plan japan has complained to the secretariat of the general agreement on tariffs and  gatt that south korea s five year plan to cut its  deficit with japan breaks gatt rules  ministry officials here said they said japan submitted a report earlier this month alleging south korea s plan to import less from japan and more from the u s and elsewhere was tantamount to creating non tariff  barriers south korea unveiled the plan in november it said it hoped to narrow its  deficit with japan to two billion dlrs by south korea s  deficit with japan was a record billion dlrs in and rose to mln dlrs in the first two months of from mln in the same period the plan envisages giving incentives to importers not to import japanese goods and to exporters to sell more to japan the officials said they believed the japanese action one step short of filing a suit was designed to bring south korea to the negotiating table and stop the plan the seoul government wants tokyo to ease various import restrictions and simplify customs inspections for south korean goods to help reduce the  deficit reuter 
