Japan reportedly will import more oranges.

The decision to drop barriers to orange imports while maintaining beef quotas after the U.S.-Japan agreement on those products expires next year was reported by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Japan agreed to import 93,000 tons of oranges from the United States in fiscal 1984 and increase imports by 11,000 tons a year, reaching 126,000 tons in fiscal 1987, the last year of the agreement. Asahi said that without quotas, Japan would import 252,000 tons or more of oranges a year from the United States.