31.   Clinton is battling in Congress for a renewal of his power to strike new trade accords around the world.

32.   China wants membership in the new trade organization to establish its place in the international community even though it will win few tangible economic benefits.

33.   Clinton is asking Congress for special powers to negotiate new trade deals.

34.   Dole and other Republicans have been deluged with telephone calls from people complaining that the new trade agency will have the authority to overrule U.S. laws.

35.   Earlier in Manchester, N.H., Gore proposed business tax cuts, new trade policies and government-funded training for the expansion of the Internet and high technology.

36.   Europe has been slow to create new trade links outside its borders, as the United States has with Mexico and potentially other countries of Latin America.

37.   European Union and U.S. officials dismissed French demands to focus on monetary stability in a new wide-ranging trade and political accord signed today by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

38.   Ever since the opening of a new global trade round flopped in Seattle last year, efforts to get new negotiations off the ground have been stymied.

39.   Export-oriented industries expect that new trade agreements will make it easier to sell or produce goods in foreign markets.

40.   Fashioning a new trade agenda was far from a sure thing.