Word: importers
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...will have weighed in on the theme that carried the president to re-election last year: homeland security. This morning, the 9/11 Public Disclosure Project releases its progress report on American preparedness for another terrorist attack. Their diagnosis: The nation has made little headway on their recommendations of greatest import. "We may be giving grades tomorrow and I'll tell you there are more F's, unfortunately than there are A's," the former Republican New Jersey governor, Tom Keane, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." The 9/11 group is composed of members of the 9/11 Commission...
...sticking point remains farming. The U.S. said last month that it would reduce its ceiling on trade--distorting support to its farmers by 60%. The European Union countered with an offer to cut import tariffs on agricultural products an average of 46%, though some goods would have smaller cuts. The offer is "Europe's bottom line," says the E.U.'s Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, although France--whose farmers retain near mythic political clout--still may veto any agreement it doesn't like. Says Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture: "It does appear to me that we will not make...
...public interest in the stagnating sport, many elders at the clubby and hidebound Japan Sumo Association have become fearful that admitting too many hungry foreign upstarts will dilute what they routinely rhapsodize as professional sumo's unique Japanese character and traditions. In the past decade, they have imposed veritable import quotas and have slowly squeezed the numbers even smaller so that each beya is now allowed only one foreign fighter (a grandfather clause permits a few exceptions). That cap on foreigners may cripple the sport's resurgence and thwart its chances of becoming a genuinely world-class sport, one with...
...sticking point remains farming. The U.S. said last month that it would reduce its ceiling on trade-distorting support to its farmers by 60%. The European Union countered with an offer to cut import tariffs on agricultural products an average of 46%, though some goods would have smaller cuts. The offer is "Europe's bottom line," says the E.U.'s Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, although France?whose farmers retain near mythic political clout?still may veto any agreement it doesn't like. Says Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture: "It does appear to me that we will not make...
...Japanese and South Koreans also worry about becoming dependent on imported rice. The concern is especially acute in South Korea, which suffered from widespread hunger as recently as the 1960s. In 1993, Japan was forced to import large quantities of rice when its harvest failed due to unusually cold weather. But many Japanese refused to buy it because of reports of dead rats in sacks of foreign rice and televised taste tests in which participants deemed the strange grains inedible. So shoppers stood in long lines or turned to the black market to buy local rice at outrageous prices instead...