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Thus did Robert S. Strauss, Jimmy Carter's chief trade negotiator, size up the importance of last week's Geneva session in the 98-nation trade talks sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Started in Japan more than four years ago to lower international tariff walls, the so-called Tokyo Round talks have proceeded at a snail's pace-mostly as a result of U.S. preoccupation with Watergate, the Viet Nam pullout and the 1976 presidential elections. Last week the negotiations entered a new and decisive phase, when the U.S. followed Japan...
Unfortunately, any eventual pact could easily be scuttled if the leftists, who bitterly oppose dismantling tariff walls, win the forthcoming French elections. Furthermore, the Congress, which faces fall elections, could also refuse to ratify any agreement. Strauss does have the wholehearted support of President Carter, but this Congress has shown itself to be well aware that protecting home industries is an easy way to win votes. Indeed, protectionism has developed global momentum: GATT studies suggest that trade-restricting moves by various countries cost the world $30 billion to $50 billion in potential international commerce over the past three years. Noting...
Along with other U.S. makers, Andros has petitioned the Government for some sort of relief, in the form of either import quotas or higher tariffs. But CB sets were not covered by the U.S.-Japan trade agreement signed in Tokyo last week by Special Trade Representative Robert Strauss. Moreover, such restrictions are opposed by other firms in the industry like Fort Worth-based Tandy Corp., which imports large numbers of CB radios and sells them through its Radio Shack retail outlets...
...long argued that West Germany and Japan should stimulate their own economies through domestic growth, thus reducing their trade surpluses and taking some pressure off the dollar. That would indeed help, and some progress is being made. Presidential Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss will visit Tokyo this week to put the finishing touches on a U.S.-Japanese agreement designed to permit more U.S. imports into Japan, and commit Japan to pep up its economy; it would enable Japanese consumers to buy more of the goods now being exported to the U.S. But West Germany has consistently rejected pleas to speed...
...flight engineers charged last week that Carter had been subjected to pressure from Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, "and possibly even from one high-ranking member of the Administration who is a former Braniff director." The reference was to Robert Strauss, who was Democratic National Chairman when Carter was nominated for President and is now Carter's chief trade negotiator. Pan Am asked the CAB either to stay the new route awards for 90 days or grant the routes only on a temporary basis. To no avail; last week the CAB staff was readying a final order for Carter...