The Financial Express -- Expressions

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Wednesday, November 19 1997

Letters to the Editor

Trade and reform

If, as the union commerce ministry claims, it has been able to persuade through bilateral negotiations the United States, European Union and certain other developed countries to accept a phase-out of quantitative restrictions on imports, this would appear to vindicate the wisdom of quiet diplomacy replacing loud rhetoric in respect of crucial economic issues.

Wooing Indian partnership

As China backs up its tough talk with action, no company has felt the brunt of China's retaliation more directly than the Seattle-based Boeing company. In 1996, while the Clinton administration weighed the most-favored nation renewal and threatened China with trade sanctions over piracy of compact discs, the Chinese government took the opportunity to award a $1.5 billion contract to Europe's Airbus Industrie, Boeing's principal competitor.

Why the US justice department is wrong

If you asked customers whom they would rather have deciding what innovations go into their computer - the government or software companies - the answer would be clear. They'd want the decision left to the marketplace, with competition driving improvements.

Trade and reform

The Index -- The rupee and the stockmarket

Inflated hopes

Wooing Indian partnership

Why the US justice department is wrong

The return of the bluechips