71.   Clinton is expected to announce a decision on the long-running auto dispute later Wednesday.

72.   Discussions between US and Japanese delegations on substantive issues in the long-running auto dispute were still in progress late Friday.

73.   The plans were put forward to help resolve a Japan-US auto trade dispute.

74.   The two world powers, however, were unable to settle an auto trade dispute.

75.   The United States had also threatened Japan with sanctions during talks on their auto trade dispute which ended in a last-minute compromise agreement in June.

76.   The United States and South Korea failed to resolve differences on an auto trade dispute during two days of talks here, an industrial source said.

77.   The two did not directly refer to the Japan-US auto trade dispute, in which Washington has threatened to take unilateral punitive measures.

78.   Traders also were biding their time ahead of the resumption of US-Japanese negotiations on their auto trade dispute Thursday in Geneva, traders said.

79.   Japan and the United States said Wednesday that they were not seeking fresh concessions in their auto dispute.

80.   Japan has said it would like the auto dispute to go to third party international arbitration.