One of the government's most comprehensive reviews of U.S. trade-related activities, covering major multilateral, regional, and bilaterial developments. Among other things, this year's report covers significant activities in the WTO, including its dispute settlement mechanism, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; bilateral trade issues with major U.S. trading partners, such as those with the European Union on the recent banana dispute; with Canada on magazines; with Japan on autos and deregulation; with Mexico on sweeteners and meat; with China on WTO accession and intellectual property protection; with Taiwan on WTO accession; and with Korea on automobiles and taxes on distilled spirits; and, major U.S. trade sanctions activities involving Cuba, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Iran, Iraq, and Libya.
(Publication 3192; May 1999)
Full report
(1,105,000 bytes)