P.M. BRIEFING : U.S. Trade Designation Ires EC
The governing body of the European Community today criticized the United States for keeping it on a list of trade partners considered trade offenders in the telecommunications sector.
According to a statement by the EC Commission, the 12-nation group “made substantial progress” in tearing down telecom trade barriers in 1989 and “regretted” that it had not been stricken from the U.S. list of telecommunications trade offenders.
The United States first put the European Community on its so-called priority list in 1986 after U.S. companies said European Community governments had unfair procurement policies and complained they were locked out of the community’s telecom equipment and services markets.
According to EC officials, U.S. telecom exports to the European Community rose to $788 million in 1988 from $569 million in 1987 as a result of the market-opening measures.
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