11.   U.S. companies also want the U.S. to regain its leadership role in shaping the global trade agenda.

12.   Unable to reconcile widely divergent interests among its members, the World Trade Organization is struggling to advance its trade liberalization agenda through a new round of negotiations.

13.   Hastert said he planned to work with President Clinton on the trade agenda and several Republicans praised the president for his commitment to winning Democratic support.

14.   He said he would give this no special priority in the future trade agenda.

15.   In a cover letter, Bush told congressional leaders that he has the enactment of so-called Trade Promotion Authority at the top of his trade agenda.

16.   Industrialized nations argue that it is now time to look ahead to future issues that should be on the trade agenda.

17.   Its members are working on a broad trade liberalization agenda, and much progress has already been made on standardization of customs standards.

18.   Japan and South Korea also have protested the U.S. agriculture proposals during preliminary negotiations on the trade agenda at WTO headquarters in Geneva.

19.   Ministers had feared that deep division between industrialized and developing countries over extending the trade agenda would hobble decision-making.

20.   The Americans succeeded in getting the contentious issue of intellectual property rights onto the trade agenda as one of four new working groups.