P.M. BRIEFING : U.S., Soviets Bargain Over Trade
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WASHINGTON — Top American and Soviet trade officials today launched wide-ranging negotiations aimed at normalizing trade between the two superpowers for the first time in nearly half a century.
Asked if the talks could be accomplished in time for President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to sign a new trade treaty at their summit in June, U.S. Trade Representative Carla Anderson Hills said, “We are a very efficient team.”
She and Deputy Trade Representative Julius Katz led the American negotiating team, while the Soviet delegation was headed by Yuriy N. Chumakov, deputy minister of foreign economic relations.
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