31.   The European Union stripped Burma of its trading privileges with the economic bloc in March because of evidence of forced labor in the country.

32.   The EU, which has revoked Burmese trading privileges, is particularly critical of the detention of pro-democracy activists and the alleged use of forced labor in Burma.

33.   A business group returned here Monday from an extensive lobbying mission in the United States, confident that Washington will renew unconditional trading privileges to China.

34.   Beijing and Tallin in May last year signed a five-year accord on trade and economic cooperation which provided for mutual trading privileges.

35.   China demanded on Thursday that President Bill Clinton renew its most-favored-nation trading privileges with no strings attached, but meantime moved to liberalize its trade system.

36.   The Russian authorities had to cut deeply into traditional subsidies and strip major industries and companies of their accustomed trading privileges.

37.   The Russian authorities had to cut deeply into traditional subsidies, and strip major industries and companies of their accustomed trading privileges.

38.   It threatened harsh punishment of violators, including confiscation of income and revoking trading privileges of illegal traders and their clients.