INTERNATIONAL

Hills Says Japanese Market Opening: The woman who once threatened to open foreign markets to U.S. goods with a crowbar said that Japan is gradually lowering barriers to foreigners but that Europe is raising some. Carla Anderson Hills said that when she first became U.S. trade representative 2 1/2 years ago, “we had 15 individual (U.S.) industries really up in arms. Now we have about four.” But Hills said the 12-nation European Community has “an agriculture market that tends to be a fortress, that is very restrictive.” Hills said the EC is guilty of restrictions outside the agricultural arena as well. She cited quotas on imported cars, electric utilities equipment and foreign content of television programming as examples.