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...boutiques, grocery stores, independent pharmacies and a major drugstore chain. Their most popular items, which they buy from a German supplier and account for 60% of sales, are aromatic foam baths scented with herbs from lavender to rosemary. And these items were among the ones singled out by the USTR office for its trade war with Europe over bananas...
That's when Reinert started writing letters and calling everyone--his Congressman, his Senator, the USTR. It was during one of many conversations with a ustr staff member that he was told, in effect, it was his own fault that he had got caught up in the trade war. After all, the USTR had published a list of the targeted imports in the Federal Register. He should have attended the hearings in Washington, just like Gillette (annual sales: $10 billion) and Mattel ($5 billion). If he had, then Reha Enterprises (less than $1 million) might have been removed from...
...requests for documents relating to the decision to seek the WTO's help with the banana dispute, the U.S. Trade Representative's office stalled, saying it was having trouble coordinating its many files. When it finally began turning over documents last December, many were censored or blank, with the USTR claiming that release of the information would "constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy...
...less than enthusiastic response that Lindner received when he first took his banana case to the Clinton Administration early in 1993. In fact, at that time the U.S. Trade Representative's internal memos show that bananas were a low priority for the U.S. government. What's more, USTR and State Department officials had given--and would continue to give--repeated assurances to leaders of Caribbean governments that the U.S. supported European preferences for their bananas. And not without good reason. Everyone was fearful that islanders unable to grow and sell bananas would turn to a much bigger cash crop--drugs...
...calling for "sustained interventions" with European Union officials to make clear that export quotas and licensing "are not an acceptable solution." By August, Dole and Glenn demanded that Kantor initiate a so-called 301 investigation. The name comes from a section of the 1974 trade law that gives the USTR authority to investigate foreign trade practices and impose tariffs in retaliation...