101.   Tokyo is resisting numerical targets as managed trade while Washington argues that the only reliable way to gauge progress is by using numbers in some form.

102.   Tokyo refused to set numerical targets, saying that approach would impinge on its national sovereignty.

103.   Tokyo said US requests to set numerical targets for cutting the surplus would lead to managed trade and undermine the free trade system.

104.   Tsutsumi added that the announcement does not mean that the government has set this as a numerical target.

105.   US officials in Tokyo have expressed dissatisfaction with the content of the package, which did not include numerical targets for market opening that Washington has been demanding.

106.   Washington had reportedly asked for the accord to be extended, offering to delete numerical targets, but Tsukuhara told reported the US had made no such concrete proposals.

107.   While the United States wants to use numerical targets to increase its access to the Japanese market, Japan maintains such goals lead to managed trade.

108.   While the United States wants to use numerical targets to increase its access to the Japanese market, Japan maintains that such goals lead to managed trade.

109.   Japan is opposed to the US idea of numerical targets, which it said represent managed trade.

110.   Japan rejects any numerical targets as tantamount to managed trade, while Washington says there can be no reliable yardstick without numbers in some form.