1.   Fast-track authority allows the administration to negotiate a trade treaty without any additions or deletions by Congress.

2.   Talks aimed at producing a new world trade treaty have been under way for six years.

3.   Trade relations were also discussed with Ivan Silayev, chair of the Interstate Economic Committee and both sides agreed to work on a long-term trade co-operation treaty.

4.   And it now looks as though the massive international trade treaty ploddingly negotiated by several administrations, may pass Congress this week.

5.   And trade treaties have plenty of loopholes, which tend to grow larger over time.

6.   Armey warned against misreading cooperation on the trade treaty.

7.   Barshefsky also appealed for fast-track authority to negotiate new trade treaties in Latin America.

8.   Bentsen accomplished his top goal last week when Congress approved the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a huge world trade treaty.

9.   -- Implement a new world trade treaty.

10.   A trade treaty that covers textiles comes up for renegotiation between the two countries early next year.