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...policy in order to punish Beijing for its brutal treatment of pro-democracy students and its continued repression in Tibet. Senate majority leader George Mitchell introduced a bill that would end MFN in six months unless Beijing shows more respect for human rights, stops using prison labor to produce export goods and curbs its overseas sales of ballistic missiles and nuclear technology...
...believed that Watson was the force behind recommendations that the U.S. boycott the Olympics and institute a grain embargo and restrictions on the export of high technology...
...measure seemed to be sidetracked, probably for many months. But it was revived with Gorbachev's strong support after telephone conversations between the Soviet leader and George Bush. Free emigration is a precondition for a lowering of very high U.S. tariffs on Soviet goods and for the granting of Export-Import Bank credits to finance the purchase of American products...
Another fear expressed by critics is that a free-trade agreement, which will have the effect of locking in all of Mexico's liberalizations, will end up simply providing the Japanese with opportunities to invest in plants that will export to the U.S. That would squarely contradict one of the Bush Administration's primary aims: to create a trading bloc in the western hemisphere to compete with the formidable bloc being created by Japan in Asia...
...Mexican President)) Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said Mexico wants Asian investment," says Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think tank. "He wants it in high-value-added, high- technology industries ((that will)) be exporting to the U.S. What we emphatically don't want to do is to make Mexico safe for Japanese investment." Prestowitz' solution is for the U.S. to induce foreign investors to export certain percentages of what they make in Mexico to third countries...