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To: Snowshoe who wrote (41238)	11/11/2003 3:15:18 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Tokyo's Nikkei plunges 2.8 percent Asian markets fall after Wall St. ends down; yen strong By Allen Wan, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 2:35 AM ET Nov. 11, 2003 cbs.marketwatch.com TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Tokyo's key benchmark tumbled nearly 3 percent to a three-month low Tuesday on the back of Wall Street's decline, poor domestic data, currency jitters and the Japanese leader's comments that he would press ahead with reforms following the weekend elections.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (41238)	11/11/2003 3:16:51 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

Oh Oh! A trade war doesn't seem like a good idea. It basically means governments are going to grab even more of their citizens' wealth and suffocate them economically. If the governments give a countervailing tax reduction to compensate for increased take on imports, it wouldn't be so bad, but they won't do that. It's just another excuse for a big tax grab. Mqurice

To: Snowshoe who wrote (41238)	11/11/2003 3:33:48 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Let the war begins! This gives a good opportunity for Brazil to export to Europe cheap stuff! This is a good war.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (41238)	11/11/2003 3:44:19 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<The cheese-eating surrender monkeys have bitten back.>> Biting back 11 November 2003 argument.independent.co.uk With the accuracy of a (French) Exocet missile, Pascal Lamy, the European commissioner responsible for trade affairs, has levied retaliatory sanctions on US products with lethal effect. He is quite right to do so, of course, as President Bush's imposition of tariffs on steel imports to the US was plainly contrary to World Trade Organisation rules, as the WTO has confirmed. M. Lamy understands how to hurt the Americans: batter their icons. So there will be revanchist tariffs placed on jeans, on Florida orange juice and on bowling alley equipment. The cheese-eating surrender monkeys have bitten back.