1.   Company representatives are pushing to open foreign markets to their products.

2.   American executives gave the trade agreement some credit for helping open the market a little.

3.   Although the Americans had been reproved for threatening sanctions, the Europeans had made it clear that Japan needed to do more to open its markets.

4.   American officials had been concerned that Asian nations would be unwilling to take steps to open their markets and expose their troubled economies to more competition.

5.   And Asian countries, while thankful for Japanese investment and foreign aid, would like to see Japan open its market more to their products.

6.   And it opened a market that Netscape could own.

7.   And newly negotiated trade pacts that open foreign market to more American agricultural products.

8.   And while most countries that have opened their markets have done so gradually, Germany abolished all its restrictions in a single move, in February.

9.   And with the rapid development of telecommunications services worldwide, European companies will be left behind unless markets are opened urgently, he said.

10.   Another element is that the United States is prepared to open its markets to African products.