Warren Christopher shows firm grasp of trade problems besetting the United States and Japan

Friday 11 March 1994 00:02 GMT

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The US Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, reacting to suggestions that Washington's approach to trade with Japan is a 'crusade'. During the press conference at the US embassy in Tokyo yesterday he said there had been no breakthrough in talks on Japan's pledge to cut its dollars 60bn-a-year trade surplus with the US

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