WHITE HOUSE SAYS JAPANESE TARRIFFS LIKELY The White House said high U.S. Tariffs on Japanese electronic goods would likely be imposed as scheduled on April 17, despite an all-out effort by Japan to avoid them. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater made the remark one day before U.S. And Japanese officials are to meet under the emergency provisions of a July 1986 semiconductor pact to discuss trade and the punitive tariffs. Fitzwater said: "I would say Japan is applying the full-court press...They certainly are putting both feet forward in terms of explaining their position." But he added that "all indications are they (the tariffs) will take effect."