51.   A steady fuss over foreign garbage offers a handy distraction if China is viewed as caving in to U.S. demands in order to avert a trade war.

52.   A seriocomic little trade war has broken out over bananas.

53.   A trade war would harm both sides.

54.   A trade war would be painful too, especially since his parent company has a global reach.

55.   A. We went up to the brink of a trade war with Japan and we stepped back from it.

56.   Alarmed by the prospect of a trade war, U.S. companies are quietly cautioning the White House that sanctions would cause irreparable damage to their business prospects in China.

57.   All that is shrinking the U.S.-Japan automotive trade gap, which nearly sparked a trade war last summer.

58.   All this is narrowing the automotive trade gap that nearly sparked a trade war between Japan and the U.S. during the summer.

59.   Bush, like Clinton, wants to avoid an all-out trade war, but he can expect the company to keep up the pressure.

60.   But despite such dire predictions, the United States and Europe have been slipping toward a trade war over bananas for more than six years.