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- <text id=93TT1618>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Splitting Differences
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- BUSINESS
- Splitting Differences
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Washington and Brussels move cautiously ahead on trade
- </p>
- <p> The announcement by Washington that European Community firms
- will be barred from bidding on an unspecified number of U.S.
- contracts sounded ominous. Made in retaliation for the E.C.'s
- refusal to open its $13 billion telephone-switching-equipment
- market to foreign bidders, it seemed just the sort of move that
- might presage a full-bore trade war.
- </p>
- <p> Behind this setback, however, was Europe's agreement to
- throw open its $20 billion electric-utility market in exchange
- for Community access to the Tennessee Valley Authority and five
- other federal power administrations. Both sides say the
- compromise should allow them to focus on more important issues,
- like agriculture, still dividing them in the stalled Uruguay
- Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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