SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL TO VISIT JAPAN AS TRADE ROW GROWS

  Undersecretary of State Michael
  Armacost will visit Tokyo next week for meetings with
  high-level officials that will include discussions of a growing
  trade row over Japanese semiconductor electronics products.
      He is the first high-level U.S. official to visit Japan
  since President Reagan announced last week plans to impose
  tariffs worth up to 30 mln dls on Japanese electronic goods on
  April 17 in retaliation for Tokyo's alleged failure to live up
  to a pact on microchip trade signed last September.
      The trip is set for April 6-8, the state department said.
  

