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...Mickey Kantor, the U.S. trade representative, indicated that the Administration may be willing to settle for a partial trade agreement with Japan instead of continuing to demand that Tokyo open five priority markets ranging from automobiles to insurance. American officials said a deal covering telecommunications, medical equipment and insurance could be ready for signing next month when representatives of the world's leading industrial countries gather at the Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy...
...House struck. It announced that Japan had failed to comply with previous trade agreements by denying Motorola fair access to Japan's cellular-phone market. "This is a clear-cut and serious case of a failure by Japan to live up to its commitments," said U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. He promised that within a month his office would publish a list of Japanese companies that would be punished -- probably through tariffs -- if the situation is not remedied. One day later, Washington's case was bolstered by new Commerce Department figures showing that the trade deficit with Japan rose nearly...
...became apparent that last-ditch trade talks in Washington were breaking down, Hosokawa quietly dispatched a high-level envoy to head off a conflict. When that failed, he sent an even higher intermediary, Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata. But a Thursday breakfast meeting between Hata and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor was ended abruptly by Kantor, who complained that Hata had brought nothing new. After Hosokawa arrived later that day, Hata asked for one last, late-night session. But after three more hours of talks that broke up at 4 a.m., there was still no progress...
...vows with hard numbers is another matter. The advance men for both leaders have spent seven months talking trade, but so far all they have achieved is frustration, while Japan's trade surplus has grown to near record levels of $50 billion. Sounding a warning last week, Mickey Kantor, U.S. trade representative, said the U.S. might have to seek "other options," a clear allusion to the possibility of trade sanctions...
...require us to befriend and even defend nondemocratic states for mutually beneficial reasons" (a summation Jeane Kirkpatrick could as easily have made). During the campaign, Clinton scored regularly with his attacks on George Bush for "coddling" China's dictators, and it was only last May that Trade Representative Mickey Kantor praised Levi Strauss & Co. for abandoning its China operations to protest Beijing's human-rights violations. But "the dance today," says a Clinton adviser, "is about moving China's abysmal human-rights record off the agenda; it's about ending the superheated argument about holding China's most- favored-nation...