In Washington, support is growing for rewarding countries supportive of America's military policies with bilateral trade deals instead of pursuing multilateral agreements.

ECONOMIST: Geopolitics and business

We have offered to support observer status for the Soviet Union in the structures created by the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade after the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations is completed, and I personally urged Chairman Gorbachev to use the intervening time to move more rapidly towards market practices in the Soviet economy.

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The benefits of a multilateral trade deal are vastly superior to those of a patchwork of bilateral and regional agreements.

ECONOMIST: World trade