Word: agreements
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From Dec. 3 through 7, trade ministers from 105 countries are scheduled to sit down in Brussels to sign off on a major accord governing nearly $4 trillion in global commerce. But negotiations to revise the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade are on the verge of collapse over the prickly issues of farm subsidies. Last week a new U.S.-European Community dispute over trade in services threatened to make an accord even more difficult...
Inability to achieve a GATT agreement would dramatically increase tensions in global trade. That, in turn, could damage cooperation on issues ranging from the environment to the Persian Gulf crisis...
...three agree on how to deal with the European Community. Said Major, echoing the views of the others: "I don't have a shred of doubt that we could negotiate an agreement ((over economic and political union)) with our European partners that would be perfectly acceptable to Britain." In that respect, Major admitted he was differing from Thatcher...
Despite the Chamber of Commerce's agreement to the compromise, Independents expressed concerns that the freeze was being forced on the business community...
...agreement also ended a series of court challenges by a group of citizens who said the city was violating the provisions...