1. Mikoyan signs a trade pact with Che Guevara. 2. And it was a Democrat, Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, who forced a two-month delay in the Senate vote on the trade pact. 3. And he complained that Clinton had not obtained so-called fast-track negotiating authority from Congress to conclude further trade pacts with individual countries. 4. And by the end of the day, the protests had completely overshadowed the trade pact. 5. And newly negotiated trade pacts that open foreign market to more American agricultural products. 6. And he asked the Senate to grant him the broad ability to negotiate international trade pacts, a measure opposed by a number of Democrats. 7. Argentina sharply criticized the decision as a violation of the Mercosur trade pact, an agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay to lower tariffs. 8. Argentina asked Brazil to exclude fellow members of the Mercosur trade pact from a new trade restriction aimed at lowering imports. 9. Argentina wants to work jointly toward expanding the Mercosur trade pact with its fellow South American countries alongside talks for a Western Hemisphere trade zone, Cavallo said. 10. Argentine President Carlos Menem said members of the Mercosur trade pact should view the European Union as a model and work towards creating a common currency. |
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