Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trying to Right the Balance," [Oct. 9] contains an assertion that U.S.-based multinationals, including General Motors, harm the nation's balance of trade out of a desire to protect their foreign operations from undue competition from American-made products. I disagree and feel that this statement is unsupportable...
...week could no longer be put off. Many economists and foreign moneymen had been urging them for months. But Carter was obviously worried about the dangers of recession and unemployment, and so he kept convincing himself that the dollar might be miraculously rescued by an improvement in the U.S. trade deficit (down from almost $3 billion in July to $1.7 billion in September), by passage of the long awaited and much battered energy and tax-cut bills, and by the President's Stage II anti-inflation program of wage-price guidelines. After all, money traders, finance ministers and central bankers...
Goma said he holds the United States partially responsible for continuing human rights violations in his native country, because Rumania received preferential trade conditions from President Carter...
...return for the most favored nation trade status, they were supposed to observe the basic human rights of men, which of course, they did not and do not. Still, they continue to receive the favored treatment," he added...
...years to almost $27 billion, helping mightily to offset the cost of imports. The U.S. exports more wheat, corn and other coarse grains (barley, oats, sorghum) than all the rest of the world combined. Pat Benedict and farmers like him are America's best hope to counter the trade challenge presented by the oilmen of Araby and the energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were it not for a variety of barriers: outrageous quotas that keep Japanese consumers from buying as much U.S. beef and fruit as they would like, variable tariffs that hold...