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DATE: THURSDAY, September 29, 1994                   TAG: 9409290089
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

Negotiations are expected to begin today between Tultex Corp. and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.

The union won an election in August to represent more than 2,300 workers at the company's main manufacturing and distributing center in Martinsville.

The union has elected a 30-member negotiating committee. Workers rallied outside the plant Wednesday evening calling on the company to work toward a contract by Christmas.

Ron Cox, the company's director of human resources, will head the company's negotiation team, Kathy Rogers, spokeswoman for Tultex, said Wednesday. She said there was no way of knowing how long it might take the groups to come up with a contract.

- Associated Press

Japan won't get heavy sanctions

WASHINGTON - Any sanctions the United States decides to impose on Japan will be narrowly targeted to deal with the most blatant trade barriers that country has erected, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said Wednesday.

Bentsen said the United States is not contemplating any broad-based economic sanctions, even if negotiations fail to reach trade accords before a Friday deadline imposed by the United States.

``If sanctions are imposed, I would expect them to be with great specificity and go to some of the more egregious areas, so far as denial of market access in Japan. I would not expect some overall, broad-based sanctions,'' Bentsen told reporters.

Bentsen refused to predict the outcome of the current framework negotiations between the two countries beyond saying that both sides seemed to have redoubled their efforts as the deadline approaches.

- Associated Press