1.   A nasty little skirmish between Russia and the United States is brewing here over a threatened trade barrier.

2.   In a briefing with reporters Wednesday, Kantor played down hopes for an immediate breakthrough, but he also played down the threatened trade sanctions as well.

3.   Some worry about the global trading system growing more fragile given the threatened trade wars among the U.S., Japan and Europe.

4.   The threatened trade war between Japan and the United States, and the war in Bosnia will be at the center of debate.

5.   China and the United States have opened their threatened trade war with announcements of stiff tariffs that could nearly double the price of some goods they trade.

6.   Guilford said the proposal has prompted Canada to remove threatened trade sanctions against the EU.

7.   HONG KONG -- In analyzing the threatened trade war between the United States and China, a Chinese government-controlled newspaper this week reaches for a chilling analogy.

8.   House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, a Missouri Democrat, accused the Japanese of trying to flood the U.S. market with cars in advance of the threatened trade sanctions.

9.   In analyzing the threatened trade war between the United States and China, a Chinese government-controlled newspaper this week reached for a chilling analogy.

10.   That agreement earlier this year averted threatened trade sanctions by both countries.