Word: traded
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Died. Hans Anton Kroll, 69, West German Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1962, a feisty career diplomat who in 1950 was chosen by Konrad Adenauer to head an East European trade ministry, got along so well with the Communists that he was posted to Moscow, where his ardent campaign for Russo-German friendship grew so distasteful to Germany's Western allies that der Alte finally recalled him; of a heart attack; in Starnberg, West Germany...
...Something is amiss in the great port city of Canton in the year A.D. 680, when Judge Dee arrives from Peking, ostensibly to look into foreign trade. What is missing-and what the Tang dynasty's master detective is looking for-is a fellow named Lew, the Imperial censor and pivotal power in the palace intrigues of the capital. Lew soon turns up dead, murdered by a delayed-action poison. The judge, of course, finds his culprit after dealing with a clutch of lively characters: the blind and beautiful Lan-lee, who collects crickets; Zumurrud, a half-caste belly...
United States diplomats and economists have struggled for years to achieve a significant international move toward trade liberalization. The recently-concluded Kennedy Round of tariff-cutting negotiations, which was a momentous advance for the U.S. and many other nations, required much bargaining and arm-twisting. In the end, the U.S. received tariff-reduction commitments at least equal in value to those it made. The final result is a balance of mutual opportunities that should greatly stimulate and increase international trade. The advantages to all countries involved are undeniable...
...which the tariff is placed. It was a defensive measure used against Germany in the First World War, and once established it never relented. Nations at the Kennedy Round were, understandably, insistent upon the abolition of this discriminatory practice. Because they did not have specific authority under the 1962 Trade Act to abolish it, the U.S. negotiators agreed tentatively to seek abolition, in return for more concessions from the Common Market, England, and Switzerland. The negotiators did have authority, however, to cut duties on 95 per cent of all chemical imports to this country by nearly 50 per cent...
...showed their power a year ago, when it was first learned that the U.S. team was considering bargaining on the ASP at the Common Market's insistence. The Senate promptly adopted a resolution urging the President to instruct the U.S. negotiators to agree only to provisions under the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, thereby aiming directly at the chemical issue...