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...Thursday. Asked whether Russia was likely to join the World Trade Organization in the next several months - as both his trade minister and the Obama administration predicted after talks in Washington early last week - Mr. Putin responded by claiming...
...around the world. In many ways, those were the subtexts in President Clinton's remarks here Wednesday afternoon to trade ministers from around the world. The ministers and their minions came to begin a complex process of horse-trading over tariffs...
...spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity, said U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and Vietnam's Trade Minister Vu Khoan had resolved the final outstanding differences in negotiations that had been under way over the past week...
...to just be flexible," said Carol Callan, a team spokeswoman. After the summit was under way, Chinese Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng addressed the delegates about his country's likely ascension to membership in the WTO. "China's...
...of taking payments in brown envelopes from Fayed in a ``cash for questions'' scandal and is forced to resign as trade minister. -- May 1997, Hamilton loses his seat in Parliament in a clean-up-government campaign by a former BBC reporter...
...recently amid fears the United States will wage war on Iraq, possibly causing supply disruptions. Japanese Economy and Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma warned of "increased instability of secure oil supplies" from the Middle East, which holds the world's...
...futilely hoped to begin a new round of trade negotiations. The surprising aspect of the confrontation was the failure of trade ministers to understand how deep feelings went, or how well organized were opposition demonstrators. Perhaps, as has been...
...change Japan's national policies. Mori, a former trade minister, won solid majorities in both houses of Parliament...and has a solid power base. A former journalist and trade minister, Mori, who like Obuchi is 62, is considered a conservative...
...are anxious to get into a market of 77 million people. The deal was signed Thursday by Barshefsky and Vietnam's Trade Minister Vu Khoan, who led a delegation that had been in Washington for a week of marathon talks. Clinton praised the deal...
...foreign affairs after a presidential campaign that raised questions about his foreign-policy credentials. Already, trade ministers agreed to launch the new trade zone in 2005 and begin talks in 2002 on removing tariff barriers. The Bush administration...