21.   THE UNITED STATES threatened a trade war with Europe on food and drink today after the breakdown of vital negotiations.

22.   President Bush said yesterday that he did not want a trade war with European countries.

23.   The present round of talks, which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday, has been going on for six years.

24.   But the trade war, which results from failure to agree, offers no sort of solution at all.

25.   THE United States, moving a step closer to a transatlantic trade war, plans to announce punitive taxes on European imports as early as today.

26.   PRIME Minister John Major was holding crisis talks today with European Commission president Jacques Delors over the looming world trade war.

27.   They said Mr Major was deeply concerned as a trade war loomed large.

28.   THE Prime Minister yesterday ordered Jacques Delors to increase his efforts to head off a catastrophic transatlantic trade war.

29.   With the spectre of a ruinous trade war looming which could spread like wildfire round the world.