1.   The South Korean Foreign Affairs Minister, Lee Sang Ock, denied that the disagreement stemmed from friction between countries demanding full market opening and those calling for exceptions.

2.   American officials respond that Japan is seeking to ingratiate itself with Beijing while hoping to take advantage of market openings won by American negotiators.

3.   All the tariff cuts and market openings are on the Chinese side.

4.   Bush and Koizumi also announced a bilateral economic initiative, aimed at promoting growth and discussing economic and regulatory reform, foreign direct investment and market openings.

5.   But the agreement contained no numerical targets by which to measure progress toward market opening.

6.   But the negotiations over market openings in China are particularly fraught with high-level politics in both capitals.

7.   Domestic gun makers seized the market opening and have thrived ever since.

8.   Few of the countries could afford to do so, making the market opening relatively worthless to African weavers or small manufacturers.

9.   Foreign brokers in Seoul criticized the limited scope of the market opening and its methodology.

10.   Gradually, Zhu has switched course, promising most market openings within three to five years.