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- <text id=90TT3384>
- <title>
- Dec. 17, 1990: Business Notes:Trade
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 17, 1990 The Sleep Gap
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 71
- Business Notes
- TRADE
- Can't Make A Deal
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The omens were bleak from the start. As talks got under way
- in Brussels last week in the final round of negotiations on
- revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 30,000
- European and Japanese farmers marched through clouds of tear
- gas in the city center, destroying property and brandishing
- placards opposing cuts in agricultural subsidies. The farmers'
- fury helped torpedo the GATT's four-year attempt to set new
- guidelines for nearly $4 trillion in global commerce. The
- effort collapsed on Friday when the European Community refused
- to meet demands by the U.S. and other major food exporters to
- cut farm aid more than 30%.
- </p>
- <p> Mindful that the failure could unleash a spiral of
- protectionism, delegates from the 107 participating nations
- consented to a cooling-off period. They will meet in Geneva
- early next year in a final push to salvage something from their
- tiring and often tempestuous talks.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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