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On the recordNovember 7, 1997
Here we go here with WTO, the procurement negotiations. We are talking about government buying goods, whether it is some countries are not completely privatized, they have state-owned aircraft industries, or, of course, we are talking about defense industries and other things, telephones and telecommunications. We are talking about a trillion-dollar global market that is available to us there that, again, if we are not going to engage in these procurement negotiations, which is also scheduled to take place in Geneva, it does not mean we will not be able to sell anything. I do not think any of us would try and suggest that nothing is going to be sold. But we will not have the access to this market that other countries will have that are going to have the rules that they are going to devise these rules.
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Jim Kolbe
Arizona

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Discussing the implications of WTO procurement negotiations on global market access.

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