1.   Officials have shown ignorance of the fact that locking their countries into trade rules can have unforeseen consequences.

2.   Other contentious issues involved US proposals to exempt key service sectors, including shipping and telecommunications, from freer trade rules.

3.   America is already in breach of world trade rules for its tax subsidies for domestic exporters.

4.   And recently, she led a delegation of officials to Washington to lobby for trade rules that would benefit West Indian banana growers.

5.   Another reason is that the start of the WTO has touched off growing moves in the world to settle bilateral disputes under its multilateral trade rules.

6.   Are the Clinton administration and WTO really open to eco-friendly changes in trade rules?

7.   Argentina asked for talks with the U.S. at the World Trade Organization to examine whether the administration of U.S. quotas on imported Argentine peanuts breaks world trade rules.

8.   At the same time, it protected those cartels with trade rules that kept foreign competitors out of Japan.

9.   Australia objects that the world trade rules allow countries like the United States to subsidize agricultural products, while nations like Australia get in trouble for subsidizing manufactured goods.

10.   Both leaders sensibly support the selective use of sanctions against China when it violates trade rules or breaks arms-control agreements.