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...York City. While Brazil has committed itself to the FTAA process, he said, there are few grounds for assuming that the country will be interested in speeding up the trade negotiations. Brazil is scheduled to preside with the U.S. over FTAA trade meetings in 2003 and 2004, so Brazilian officials "don't want to see their position of leadership cut" by accelerating the process. Moreover, Brazil is intent on negotiating a trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur trade group that it leads, "which it can then use as the basis for negotiating in the FTAA...
...sport. Japanese pitcher becomes the fourth to throw a no-hitter in both U.S. major leagues TUPAC SHAKUR Posthumous album by the rapper who went down in a hail of bullets in 1996 hits No. 1. Expect John Phillips to top the charts in 2007 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN The Brazilian monkey fights back from near extinction; immediately teams up with Clint Eastwood for Any Which Way You Can sequel...
MARCH 30, 2001. BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT CARDOSO...
...areas, and North America's normally pro-trade farmers are worried. Says Shawn Stevenson, a citrus and pistachio farmer in California's San Joaquin Valley: "It's hard to compete against folks who don't have the regulatory burden we do, or a minimum wage, or high fuel prices." Brazilian producers of frozen, concentrated orange juice are thirstily eyeing the U.S. market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping 63% tariffs, slashing Brazil's slice of the $8 billion market to just 12%. Brazil, with its much lower...
...Brazilian-born Ghosn is widely admired for his revival of Nissan. Lately he's a fashion role model for Japanese executives. The stocky, thin-haired CEO doesn't look like GQ material. But profiles in Japanese media have focused as much on his dark, stylishly tailored suits, colorful ties and rimless eyewear as on his management skills. Masakatsu Ochiai, a Tokyo fashion writer, says traditionally staid Japanese businessmen think that "if they can dress like Ghosn, they will be like...