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...market niche in Japan, but the issue nearly triggered a major trade confrontation between the two countries. Last week Japan defused the standoff by agreeing to remove barriers to foreign products in the lucrative Tokyo-area market for mobile-telephone and two-way-radio services. Said U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills, who negotiated the pact: "The measures should provide immediate improvements for U.S. companies in these two high-growth segments of the Japanese telecommunications market...
...trade groups and corporations, legislators had Japan in mind when they passed the provision -- dubbed Super 301 -- as part of last year's trade bill. After listening to the conflicting advice of his evenly divided Cabinet, Bush responded to the prevailing protectionist mood in Congress and gave Trade Representative Carla Hills the go-ahead to put Japan on the Super 301 hit list, along with Brazil and India...
...interim agreement. The U.S. is resuming shipments of untreated beef, totaling $15 million annually, which the E.C. had included in the ban because U.S. inspectors refused to certify that it was in fact untreated. In turn, the U.S. tariffs on E.C. goods will be scaled back. Trade Representative Carla Hills said that while the interim agreement was a positive step, the U.S. still feels that the E.C.'s import ban is "an unjustifiable restriction on trade...
Tempers flared during last week's NSC meeting, which lasted more than two hours. U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills argued vehemently that Bush should scrap the agreement in favor of persuading the Japanese to buy standard F-16s, minus the instructions for putting their most sensitive components together. On the other side, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide...
Perhaps not. Gigli and Valentino have already said plenty. "I don't believe in frontiers," reflects Gigli. Explains Carla Sozzani, a business associate of the designer's: "Romeo's all for 1992 and a united Europe." Valentino has announced some similar geopolitical aims. "I am going to Paris as an Italian designer to speak for Italy," he says. "I will never betray my country, but I need the challenge to do better." Elaborates Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino's partner: "Rome is becoming a very provincial market, and it's simply not stimulating the creator...