Word: kantor
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WASHINGTON WAS SHUT down by snow, Congress and the White House were locked in budget combat, and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor last week was talking about...bananas. Kantor announced a cease-fire in a yearlong imbroglio with banana producers Colombia and Costa Rica. In the past, he said, the two countries had joined with the 12-nation European Union to create trade policies that have hurt American commercial interests. Never mind that few bananas are grown in the U.S. or that only a handful of American jobs was at stake. Forget too that major U.S. producers Del Monte...
...avoid scheduling elections," notes Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. "The bargain was originally to let a Socialist be prime minister; now it's the LDP's turn." Hashimoto has gained popularity and a reputation as a tough negotiator after participating in trade talks with U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. His main priorities are reenergizing Japan's flagging economy through massive public spending and deregulation. Having served just 18 months, current Prime Minister Tommiichi Murayama attributed his resignation to the strain of the past year's events which included the gas attack on Tokyo's subways and the Kobe earthquake...
Other candidates who have been mentioned for the job include Calvin J. Kantor, the head of the University security guard unit; Christine Wellington, a former Northeastern campus police sergeant and Saul L. Chafin, Harvard's police chief from...
...these reasons, the auto deal falls far short of being the "major step toward free trade throughout the world" that Clinton hailed. This week, even before the pact had been printed, word got out that Kantor's office will begin investigating a potentially explosive complaint by Eastman Kodak. The company charges that Fuji Photo Film and the Tokyo government illegally conspired to prevent Kodak from enlarging its 9% share of the market for camera film in Japan. The complaint -- involving some of the same Japanese business practices that the U.S. tried but failed to change in the auto deal...
Such a deadline was little more than half a day away when Hashimoto and Kantor reached their agreement. Had they not done so by midnight Wednesday, the U.S. was poised to impose 100% tariffs on 13 makes of Japanese luxury cars, including Lexus and Infiniti, raising their prices enough to make them virtually unmarketable in the U.S. and costing the Japanese automakers nearly $6 billion a year in lost sales. Japan could have retaliated by limiting imports from the U.S., perhaps of aircraft and farm products such as beef. That might have spurred another U.S. retaliation and started a spiral...