USSR TO CUT COAL PRICE FOR JAPANESE STEELMILLS The Soviet Union has agreed to cut its coking coal export prices to Japanese steel mills by about five dlrs a tonne in 1987/88 starting April 1 in exchange for an increase in export volume, industry sources said. The prices were set at 44 dlrs a tonne for Neryungrinsky coal and at 43.80 dlrs for Kuznetsky coal, fob. Japan will import a total of 4.9 mln tonnes from both areas, up from 4.2 mln a year earlier, they said. The steelmakers had asked Moscow to agree to a cutback to 3.7 mln tonnes in 1987/88, but the Soviet Union urged Japan to increase the amount to 6.5 mln, they said.