Still bananas
CHARLENE BARSHEFSKY, America's trade representative, is fighting a war on two fronts. Good news from the Pacific: last week she signed a trade pact with Vietnam, and this week she secured cuts in access fees charged by Japan's local telephone monopoly (see article). But the Atlantic front is a different story: America and the EU face a growing array of nasty trade disputes whose resolution is hardly in sight.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Still bananas”
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