Word: yeutter
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...Japan were headed for what could become a major trade row. In fact, Tokyo TV commentators described the event with the phrase Kaisen zen- ya (the eve of war), an expression used to describe the days before Pearl Harbor. In Washington, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, while insisting that a trade war was not at hand, nonetheless called the confrontation a "serious dispute...
...Nakasone has not made a single appearance on behalf of local candidates -- because no invitations were extended to him. Jokes one Tokyo academic: "If President Reagan is a lame duck, our Prime Minister is a dying duck." Nakasone probably did not feel any better after U.S. Trade Representative Yeutter told a Senate Finance Committee hearing that he could not understand why Japan was planning to introduce the value-added tax. Replied Japanese Government Spokesman Masaharu Gotoda: "The tax system is our country's internal affair...
Suddenly the specter of an all-out trade war between the U.S. and the twelve- member European Community loomed larger than ever. In Palm Springs, Calif., where President Reagan was vacationing, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter announced last week that the Administration was prepared to slam the door by Jan. 30 on more than $400 million worth of West European imports, including Italian white wine, French cognac and British gin. The Europeans came right back with threatened new barriers against such U.S. products as corn-gluten feed, soy cakes, rice and almonds. Yeutter spoke darkly of possible "major disruptions...
...tense negotiations that ran well past midnight last Friday, the ministers resolved their differences and successfully launched the "Uruguay Round" of trade talks. Up until the last minute, delegates were haggling over such sticky agenda topics as agricultural subsidies and restrictions on trade in services. U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, who staggered back to his hotel room at 5:30 a.m. Saturday and got only two hours of sleep before boarding a plane home, was ecstatic at * the outcome. Said he: "The launching of the Uruguay Round is a major victory for the principles of free and fair trade...
...Administration sees the GATT round as a way to pre-empt Congress, since productive trade talks could open up foreign markets to increased U.S. exports. To cover every possible angle at the GATT session, the White House sent, along with Yeutter, a heavy-hitting team: Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng and nearly 60 other delegates...