WASHINGTON : Averting a Trade War?
In another attempt to end the simmering dispute that threatens to become a full-scale trade war, American and European negotiators sit down in the U.S. capital beginning Wednesday to tackle the issue of agricultural subsidies.
U.S. Trade Representative Carla Anderson Hills and Agriculture Secretary Edward R. Madigan will meet with top European Community officials Frans Andriessen and Ray MacSharry to seek compromise on the impasse before Dec. 5, when the United States plans to impose stiff retaliatory tariffs on European imports, chiefly French white wine.
Resolving the dispute should allow rapid completion of six years of trade reform talks among 108 nations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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