51.   It suggests APEC should increase cooperation on national competition policies, and address issues involving abuse of anti-dumping issues.

52.   Ministers at the World Trade Organization agreed Tuesday to study setting up trade rules to govern national competition policies, a Japanese Finance Ministry official said.

53.   Prior to that he was in charge of European competition policy and was Irish attorney-general.

54.   The European Union and Japan also want the WTO to discuss rules on competition policy, governing how businesses play fair in the market place.

55.   The others will be government procurement, services and competition policy.

56.   The others will look at government procurement, services and competition policy.

57.   The priorities are working out new legal frameworks for contract law, competition policy, anti-trust legislation and intellectual property rights, he said.

58.   The two trading powers also want the WTO to discuss rules on competition policy that would seek to make businesses play fair in the market place.

59.   They want to link trade with investment rules and competition policies, negotiate more tariff cuts and trade facilitation and possibly modify WTO rules on environmental safeguards.

60.   These include work on competition policy and regulatory reforms as well as rapid implementation of measures to further enhance an environment conducive for trade and investment flows.