Preliminary talks during the first round of negotiations led to the following tentative agreements between the NAC and USSL:
The transportation agreement will focus on all vehicle exports to Hawaii, Alaska and the US west coast
The agreement will proceed in two phases, with USSL initially transporting product to locations identified in paragraph 1 above and then, if performance is deemed acceptable by NAC, entering into negotiations to provide transportation and logistics services to other ports of call in Asia and South America
The agreement will be nonexclusive, so NAC will be allowed to engage the transportation services of other companies and USSL will be permitted to transport vehicles produced by other Japanese enterprises
The agreement will run for five years.