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To: ild who wrote (243146)	5/29/2003 8:13:25 PM
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Trade secrets Overseas offices that cost millions in tax dollars to run and often mislead lawmakers and the public about their questionable performance are the state's trade secrets. By KIMBERLY KINDY The Orange County Register California's trade office in South Africa boasts of brokering a $12,000 export deal for a Diamond Bar toxic cleanup company. Trade officials in Mexico say a Lodi sewage-equipment firm sold $150,000 in products because of them. And the state's outpost in Japan lauds its work in a $33,334 investment deal that helped a Huntington Beach company that sells purses and briefcases. There's only one problem with the deals: None of them happened. www2.ocregister.com