81.   In recognition, every president since Jimmy Carter has invited the top trade official to sit with the Cabinet.

82.   In recent weeks, Clinton trade officials have fired back.

83.   In recent years, American trade officials say, the Chinese have clamped down more vigorously on bootleggers.

84.   In the first three months of the Barak government, Daley said, Israeli trade officials have demonstrated a new willingness to work with Palestinian and Jordanian counterparts.

85.   In the earlier outing, the disguise had to be doffed when trade zone officials confronted the camera team to say they could not work without a permit.

86.   In Thailand, Rominger is scheduled to speak at the Asian Grain Markets Conference in Bangkok and then meet with Thai government trade officials.

87.   India also said it will make it easier for companies in India to buy re-insurance abroad, trade officials who attended the meeting said.

88.   Japan would not oppose a decision to include European companies in the U.S.-Japan chip industry talks, said a senior Japanese trade official.

89.   Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto canceled plans to visit the U.S. after Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said he will resign, said a trade ministry official.

90.   Kantor was in Seattle for a Democratic Party fund-raiser and a roundtable discussion with local business people, union representatives and port and state trade officials.