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May 16, 2000 / from a summary statement

BEIJING (AP) - Having secured an agreement with Latvia, negotiators seeking to bring China into the World Trade Organization before year's end continued working Wednesday on securing the big prize: a deal with the European Union.

By Patricia Wilson EVERETT, Wash. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush set aside "posturing and partisanship" on Wednesday, urging colleagues and Democrats in Congress to pass President Clinton's landmark trade pact with China.

The Cato Institute / by Deroy Murdock Deroy Murdock is a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and a policy advisor to the Cato Institute.

By Paul Eckert BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese and European Union negotiators got down on Tuesday to the fine print of a potential deal that would move Beijing to the brink of WTO membership.

LA Times World affairs: Economic openness doesn't cure all ills, as we have learned with NAFTA. By HARLEY SHAIKEN

OTTAWA, May 16 (AFP) - Canada announced Monday that it had reached an agreement with Australia to end a 25-year-old Australian ban on the imports of Canadian fresh, chilled and frozen salmon.

May 16 2000 / PA News / Rachel Blackburn Six environmental protesters were, according to this story, today cleared of obstructing police during a demonstration at a test site for genetically modified crops.