Staff writer
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum has drawn up a draft action program to implement an agreement reached last year to liberalize trade in nine specific industrial sectors, beginning next year, government sources said Tuesday.
The draft action program calls for, among other things, the elimination by 2002 of import tariffs for forest products and by 2005 for fish and fish products, the sources said. But it is these two sectors particularly that Japan sees as too "sensitive" to liberalize, they said.