1.   First, he said, the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be.

2.   If Pat Buchanan has a beef with trade policy, Iowa is a strange place to press his protectionist case.

3.   Such difficulties of determining the impact and the timing of adjustment make generalisations about trade policies elusive.

4.   The prepared texts of speeches by Mr Clinton and Mr Bush on trade policy are indistinguishable from each other.

5.   An agreement on many aspects of trade policy was in sight.

6.   They also agreed to create a commission of experts to tackle problems arising from the different trade policies adopted by Latin American and EC countries.

7.   One may contrast the effects on the budget of the trade policy of the EC with respect to manufactured goods, and to agricultural products.

8.   However the consequences for employment remained the most ambiguous, especially in the absence of a comprehensive external trade policy.

9.   American foreign policy in Asia must be more than trade policy.