51.   National Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister-elect Tim Fischer will be trade minister.

52.   New Zealand has quietly proposed to break the impasse by offering Philip Burdon, its trade minister, for the post.

53.   Noir, a former trade minister, was once seen as a possible presidential candidate.

54.   Official organs like the Vietnam News remain, of course, with their turgid, largely unreadable front-page accounts of visiting trade ministers from Turkey, and the like.

55.   Powell met Ivanov after a day of meetings with the foreign and trade ministers of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

56.   Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama yesterday agreed with trade ministers that Japan would continue to reject the purchasing plans, Japanese newspapers said.

57.   Ruml offered his resignation last weekend along with the finance minister, Ivan Kocarnik, and the trade minister, Vladimir Dlouhy.

58.   Sergio Marchi, international trade minister for Canada, said Brazil was letting the dispute interfere with the agenda of the two nations.

59.   Since then, deputy trade ministers have met several times to pound out details on creating an Americas free trade zone.

60.   She will be replaced as minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation by Shi Guangshen, a deputy trade minister.