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Unable to resolve an increasingly bitter dispute with China over intellectual property rights, President Clinton plans to impose new tariffs on about $1 billion worth of Chinese imports. On Saturday, U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor will release a list of Chinese goods to be targeted, White House officials say. The hard-hitting action follows months of acrimonious back-and-forth on the rampant piracy of U.S. computer software, motion pictures, videos, sound recordings and periodicals in China -- something U.S. businesses say costs them hundreds of millions of dollars in fees annually. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says "the U.S. move...
...sanctions, the Chinese government is urging its citizens to stop buying pirated intellectual products, the sale of which robs American producers of more than $1 billion a year. The move by the government came after copyright talks between the two countries broke down last week. U.S Trade Representative Mickey Kantor had warned that $2.8 billion of Chinese exports to the United States could be hit with punitive tariffs if Beijing does not halt piracy of U.S. software, movies and music. Chinese officials said today that in addition to the new public information campaign, it will make changes this year...
...notes, lists of demands to be met in return for Dole's support when a lame-duck Congress votes this week on the world-trade pact known as GATT. On the receiving end were White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. Within 24 hours, all three were seated across from Dole, sipping orange juice and coffee in a private room at the Palladin, a tony Washington restaurant. Why meet there instead of at the White House? Because the Palladin is situated in the Watergate complex where Dole lives. The Senate...
...Mickey Edwards, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and former member of Congress from Oklahoma, says the shift in power will return legislative initiative to Congress, where it belongs...
Some nations are beginning to realize the style over substance nature of American mass culture. Going to Disneyland is a fun diversion, but in a century, someone will laugh at those plastic mouse ears, the basis of an entire culture. Mickey Mouse in fact stands a better chance of lasting the century than the Quebecers in New England...